How can I report abusive websites?

Question

Sometimes I can have a typo. Very often I type payapal.com instead of paypal, or yaho.com instead of yahoo, but those sites are harmless. Sometimes trying to get to other websites, I have a typo, but I get into some page that won't stop popping windows, and I can't get out of. It was happens a window appears asking me to make that page my homepage, and even if I say no it somehow becomes my homepage and a lot of other stuff get into my computer. I don't think is fair, I don't get into sex websites, I don't think it's fair for me to deal with these kinds of things just for having a typo.

How can I report them? Who can I report them to?

Answer 1

Taking advantage of typos is a very old trick on the Internet. While you can report an abusive website to thier webhost, often this is not effective as the host is run by the same people. Also some webhosts welcome these questionable operators because they can charge a big fee to keep the site up. Your best bet is to keep your spyware scanners current and to use some sort of protection from these sites. Spyware Blaster, Microsoft Defender, and Firefox Browser are some of the possible ways of protecting yourself.
There are quite a few free anti-spyware programs available! I suggest that users should use at least 3 different products to regularly scan their systems. Most of these products are free for non-commercial use versions that have disabled some features, usually the active resident protection.

Spybot Search and Destroy is an excellent program for scanning for and removing spyware. The resident modules can be a bit buggy, but the extra included tools such as startup manger are great! http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Adaware is another good scanner and removal tool but it has no resident abilities at all in the free version. http://free.lavasoft.com

Ewido is fairly new as a free spyware scanner, but it comes from the people who brought us AVG, so I expect good things: http://free.grisoft.com

Microsoft has their free scanner avalable for download although many advise that this tool is a bit permissive of questionable programs and add ons! Defender does offer a couple of options the others do not have such as scheduled scan and a resident process for active protection. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

The Yahoo toolbar includes an Spyware scanner that works ok. Yahoo does not advise this but you can run this program outside the toolbar by simply creating a shortcut to the exe file found in the yahoo directory under program files. http://toolbar.yahoo.com/

A new player is on the scene with SUPERAntiSpware. I was fairly impressed with the deep scans performed by this product, and it found some inactive files with spyware embedded,that the others had missed. I will add this to the list of tools in the arsenal and see how it really performs on active spyware. If you want to try it you can download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Once you have your system cleaned up of all the spyware, then you should protect yourself against new infestations. Spyware Blaster does a very good job and does not use up any system resourses in doing so. Works with both IE and Firefox browsers: This Download can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Another good way to avoid spyware is to use the Firefox browser. While not immune from spyware infestation, you will certainly not have as many problems as when you run I.E. Easy Download at http://www.mozilla.com

Answer 2

It's not worth the effort to try to complain to anyone. The scumbags that put sites like that up are hardly going to listen to any complaints. Nor are the hosting companies.

Answer 3

you have no way to report these website, what you need to do, is to install a spyware program into your system, then you will not going to have anymore problem about this poping windows.
I recommanded you to use "Spyware Doctor" and "Webroot Spysweeper"
you can download both @ http://www.click-now.net

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

with all the troubles in the world, this is your problem

Answer 5

try this,

http://www.abuse.net/