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CNN, MSNBC Spammers Downgrading Their EMails

Posted on 18 August 2008 Comments (0)
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This is pretty interesting. After a week or two of seeing CNN spam, then MSNBC spam (both of which allude to “breaking news stories” in order to get peoples attention), it seems the people behind those attacks are now sending out plain emails (with none of the allusions to being from major news networks) that simply say “BREAKING news” in the title field:

If you visit the link in the email, you’ll see this:

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I don’t believe I’ve seen the length, rating and viewcount under the video before so that’s likely a new tactic they’ve employed. Looks like they need to hire a spellchecker though…

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Lost…..and Found

Posted on 18 August 2008 Comments (0)
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The practice of affiliates signing up with Zango then hiding pirated movies behind their installer prompt ([1], [2]) takes another twist, as we go hunting for TV episodes instead of movies and find….

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……TV shows (streamed from Chinese Youtube-style websites for the most part, though a lot of the clips have been pulled for breaking ToS on the sites in question), hidden behind Zango installer prompts. Many of the episodes are uploaded by individuals who link back to Warez sites (such as the Xinoa.net site in his profile), so these are clearly not all legitimate uploads. Some of the videos linked to may be legitimate, but for the most part, the videos across the sites are branded with Chinese BitTorrent websites, video rip portals with the name of the site branded onto the clip , deleted for being an unauthorised upload and so on).

Obviously, this is something of a mini industry we have here but I’m faintly alarmed that so many of these affiliates are happily churning out these kinds of sites. I’m also pretty sure Zango doesn’t want people seeing what effectively says “Free ripped off movies online sponsored by Zango” on their installer prompts, either.

As a side note, it’s not just Zango affiliates doing this - here’s another example, this time for something called “Cpalead.com” that wants you to fill in a survey in return for seeing “free” episodes of Lost:

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In case you were wondering, my monitor isn’t broken, they just grey out the page when the popup appears. The Lost episodes appear to be ripped by end-users and uploaded to Megavideo.com.

The sites above are

lost-stream(dot)com
ietv(dot)co.uk/category/watch-lost-online
watchprisonbreakonlinefree(dot)com
watch-lost-online(dot)info
www.heroesstreaming(dot)com

I guess I ended up with a trilogy after all.

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Another Site Hiding Pirate Movies Behind a Zango Installer Prompt

Posted on 18 August 2008 Comments (0)
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A few days ago, I wrote about a site asking you to install Zango before you could view the site content (which happens to be pirated movies). Well, another site has come to light doing a similar thing - I’m starting to wonder how many of these are actually out there. It’s also served to highlight what I feel is a particularly confusing popup box, but we’ll get to that later. First off, here’s the website in question:

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Bestcinemaonline(dot)com. As you can see, the site is similar to the last one (except that site is registered anonymously to an individual in China, whereas this one is registered to someone in Indonesia). Also, the format is different - the last site was more of a “movie repository”, whereas this one takes the shape and style of a blog with each individual entry pointing to a film. And what films they are!

Batman!

X-Files!

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Hellboy! (Is that even out yet?)

As you might have expected, a lot of the movies end up looking like this when attempting to watch them:

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…..whoops.

I must also give a special mention to one of the most confusing popup warnings I’ve ever seen - it really threw me, and I admit I nearly installed Zango accidentally after seeing it. If (when prompted with the Zango installer box) you click “Cancel”, this appears in the middle of your screen:

“Click OK to Cancel or Click “Cancel” to continue the installation”.

…..Whaaaaaa? That’s a bit of a brain bender, right there. I hope this set of writeups doesn’t become a Trilogy…

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A Dark Knight For Zango?

Posted on 18 August 2008 Comments (0)
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Here’s a site - movietvonline(dot)com - that requires you to install Zango in order to view the content.

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Nothing unusual there, though I did think the owners of the website were pushing things a little, perhaps, to ask you to install something to view content you could view for free on the official website.

Anyway.

Turns out I was somewhat wrong, because they’re not asking you to download Zango in order to watch trailers:

They want you to agree to install Zango in order to view whole movies, some streamed on the movietvonline website from other sources, others in the form of broken up downloads hosted on file-downloading sites.

Here’s a shot of what appears to be a badly made camcorder (complete with people talking and scrunching up paper in the background) streamed on the website:

Clearly, the Joker isn’t asking Batman “Why so serious” - he’s asking him why the camcorder rip is so seriously bad. In fact, the whole site appears to be nothing more than a mass repository of dubiously acquired movie copies: