zgeek.com hijack?

[minorproblem]

Ok i checked my host files and it doesn't appear to be those, i use firefox never IE. But if i type in "zgeek.com" i get redirected to one of those blank search pages with a couple of adds on them.. But if i type in "www.zgeek.com" or "www.zgeek.com.au" it works just fine...?? Anyone else getting this.

[Phyltr]

Nope. I still end up here.

[minorproblem]

Both of my machines are doing it, plus i terminal serviced into my other machine in wollongong (im in sydney at the moment) and it does it also

[edit] I would also like to say that both of these machines are on completly diffrent isp's, i also just out of curiousity just terminal serviced into a clients machine who i use to work for and theres does it also?

[muga]

fine here also..

[minorproblem]

This is what it looks like,
http://tinypic.com/1qlp5g

And also note how it runs to a diffrent ip if i have "zgeek.com" rather than "www.zgeek.com"?? Remember i checked my host files.

http://tinypic.com/1qlpbo

[astro]

Time for you to use some spyware sweepers, dude. Spyware can do all sorts of nasty things, like hijacking IE. Try Spybot or NoAdWare.

[Hired Goon]

yeah, looks like something spyware related to me. Antivirus, Spyware removal and failing that re-install windows...

Edit: erm, ok... so I was totally wrong.

[Whiskers]

Same thing is happening to me- the Terrorists are coming!

Edit- I'm using Firefox as well.

[minorproblem]

Yeah i would of said its spyware too except that it is also doing it on my debian machine in both konquorer and mozilla

[minorproblem]

Plus on my windows machine i run, adaware professional, spybot s&d, windows antispyware plus i format and reload monthly and basically only visit zgeek...

[Cassa]

I have had similar things happen to me before with other websites, usually if I attempted it a few times it worked but it ended up being a spyware problem.

[Reprobate]

the same has happened to me. but only after i clicked to read this thread. seriously.

i tried to hit reply and that page came up, the one that you took the screenshot.

i've gone BACK and typed in .au at the end and it works now.

i had to re-sign in.

i went to register.com to see who owns zgeek.com and it comes up as TIMED OUT.

if the domain name has lapsed or someones done a swifty and yanked it out from under Pirate then the shit will hit the fan.

[SOC]

I seriously doubt Pirate would let his domain registration lapse.

[Natfu]

Same here, being redirected to another page however adding .au to the end seems to work until I use a link.

[Kez]

Oh fuck!

I had a friend who likes DNS shit and runs DNS checks on all of this shit all the time, and he told me the other week that ZGeek was meant to expire on the 14th.... and my one expires in 3 months or something.

Has it been renewed? By the look of it, the record still exists, but as far as the rest of the net is concerned, ZGeek.com has expired.

[SOC]

Edit: okayyy movis told me what was going on :p

Wanna share with the rest of us? April 1 is still a way off...

[Bifrost]

Plus on my windows machine i run, adaware professional, spybot s&d, windows antispyware plus i format and reload monthly and basically only visit zgeek...I would hazard to say it's an ISP DNS or proxy thing if you are getting it on both Windows and Debian...

Try entering the addresses into your hosts file on Debian and trying it...If that fails, I'd say it's some sort of ULTRA spyware...Possibly a cache thing? Do you run a local proxy??

[Reprobate]

yep, Kez is correct. the domain name rego expired on 14th February 2005.

the dns is now pointed at:
dns01.gpn.register.com
dns02.gpn.register.com
dns03.gpn.register.com
dns04.gpn.register.com
dns05.gpn.register.com

somebody get the big fella on the phone. STAT!

[Natfu]

Pirate will become 'irate when he finds out. hehe

[Pagey]

Same thing happened to me but I use IE

[Reprobate]

Pirate! Why have you forsaken us?

[Reprobate]

Re-register NOW or the puppy dog gets it!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/reneumann/FuzzyBugpup.jpg

[sagit]

flush your dns on your comp (start-run-cmd-ipconfig /flushdns-exit) and clear out all cookies and history and stuff from browser. change start page to www.zgeek.com.au

edit hosts file to point www.zgeek.com and forums.zgeek.com to 67.15.132.41

[Hired Goon]

get on IRC and complain to Movis, he'll love it :p

[Kez]

In plain english, the DNS hasn't propergated yet to certain DNS servers.

So this can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a week. It's only meant to take 72 hours, but sometimes slower, sometimes quicker.

I ran a treacroute on both "zgeek.com" and "www.zgeek.com", and they both point to the new ZGeek IP address "67.15.132.41".

So all is good, the domain has been renewed (I hope), and now the DNS needs to settle down :)

In the mean time, if you really do need ZGeek, just goto "http://67.15.132.41"

[Reprobate]

In plain english, the DNS hasn't propergated yet to certain DNS servers.

So this can take anywhere from 10 minutes to a week. It's only meant to take 72 hours, but sometimes slower, sometimes quicker.

I ran a treacroute on both "zgeek.com" and "www.zgeek.com", and they both point to the new ZGeek IP address "67.15.132.41".

So all is good, the domain has been renewed (I hope), and now the DNS needs to settle down :)

In the mean time, if you really do need ZGeek, just goto "http://67.15.132.41"

In the meantime I'll keep holding the puppy in this precarious position until such time I am satisfied with the said propogation.

[Kez]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to darkside again.

[druid]

I'm putting this to Support & Feedback as it has fuck all to do with spyware etc.

While the gods work on the problem make sure your hosts file looks like the entries below so you can use the site normally. Putting the IP in the address field confuses cookies-

The domain has expired. I hope there's a grace period so Tony can sort it up.

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: zgeek.com
Created on..............: 14 Feb 2000 16:23:14
Expires on..............: 14 Feb 2005 16:23:14

67.15.132.41 forum.zgeek.com
67.15.132.41 forums.zgeek.com
67.15.132.41 gallery.zgeek.com
67.15.132.41 www.zgeek.com

[Directed]

It does it to me as well, unless I add .au on the end of the .com.

[Directed]

Damn, I cant add rep either. No soup for you Klez and darkside

[Kyle]

Yaaay its getting fixed. I freaked out for a bit this morning before I decided to try zgeek.com.au

[Bifrost]

Werd. That was uncool...It took a while for my work's DNS and Netspace's DNS to update with the registrar's default page, but this morning it was all over...

Thank fuck he registered http://www.zgeek.com.au last year!

[Kez]

Werd. That was uncool...It took a while for my work's DNS and Netspace's DNS to update with the registrar's default page, but this morning it was all over...

Thank fuck he registered http://www.zgeek.com.au last year!
Yah huh

Otherwise we would have been [insert common english phrase to describe a bad situation... ie) "Up shit creek without a paddle"]

[SOC]

I seriously doubt Pirate would let his domain registration lapse.
OK, I was wrong... :rolleyes:

[Kez]

OK, I was wrong... :rolleyes:
Now eat those words!

[SOC]

pass the salt, please. and the ketchup ... needs ketchup.

[kleph]

OK, I was wrong... :rolleyes:

and you also thought bush and howard couldn't get re-elected, didn't you?

[SOC]

OK, OK, I've been wrong on more than one occasion...

[Reprobate]

OK, OK, I've been wrong on more than one occasion...

Obviously you're not from the school of Nodbugger.

I was going to say 'cocksucker' but there may have been some confusion at first. But we both know it's virtually the same thing.

[RaZ]

Obviously you're not from the school of Nodbugger.
I was going to say 'cocksucker' but there may have been some confusion at first. But we both know it's virtually the same thing.


Soooo true :D but from now on "cocksuxer" will work fine.