dot.tk

[smeagol]

DOT.TK SPYWARE ALERT
I visited dot.tk on my company computer and it detected spyware.  Not sure if real or not but be careful! 

[nimda]

Can you be more specific? That's a legitimate registrar.

[r3wt]

Can you be more specific? That's a legitimate registrar.

probably a competitor such as subdomain.com or co.nf, co.nr etc. i just visited dot tk and nothing from chrome, Avast Internet Security or Malware Bytes Pro. Its very possible however that a hacker injected malicious code into the form by some groundbreaking sql injection, but if thats the case it was obviously caught and contained by dot. tk

[jackjack]

Can you be more specific? That's a legitimate registrar.

This

[neurobox]

It's a legit registrar, but it's subdomains are frequently abused for spyware. WOT and the likes have cordoned off the whole .tk domain as an elevated risk of a threat, which seems more lazy than fair.

[r3wt]

Can you be more specific? That's a legitimate registrar.

This

in his defense although dot tk has cleaned up their act, in the past they were notorious for allowing scam customers. there are still many dot tk paid domains that point directly to spyware and banner farms. they dont terminate paid accounts for abuse of TOS. that being said the claims of dot.tk(their oficial registrar site) being infected with malware i didn't get nothing when i went their in chrome. normally chrome will alert followed by Avast Int Security a few seconds later. usually a scam with Malware Bytes Pro reveals details about the mode of delivery. i've found that 99 percent of the time it is cross site scripting, meaning a page has been compromised by spyware

[mprep]

I don't know. I used dot.tk domain services and I have never had any malware problems. It's like saying that a domain registrar is full of malware because he registered a .com domain that has a infected website associated with it.

[neurobox]

.tk is a bit different than other TLDs in that the one registrar has a lock on the market, and gives out domains without strong traceability. Try getting a .ca anonymously, then tell me which TLD a script kiddie would try first.

[nimda]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

[mprep]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

[neurobox]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

Yep, that's my point. The OP's company computer was probably running something that works indiscriminately, as I've seen done. That said, WOT does now make the distinction, and dot.tk itself checks out as "Trustworthy."

The other possibility is that you are running malware that is hosts-redirecting your attempt to access dot.tk, redirecting to a spoof server that does have malware on it... do you get 77.243.130.175 when you ping dot.tk?

[ranlo]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

Yep, that's my point. The OP's company computer was probably running something that works indiscriminately, as I've seen done. That said, WOT does now make the distinction, and dot.tk itself checks out as "Trustworthy."

The other possibility is that you are running malware that is hosts-redirecting your attempt to access dot.tk, redirecting to a spoof server that does have malware on it... do you get 77.243.130.175 when you ping dot.tk?

The second is what I'd think it is -- if the issue is with visiting dot.tk itself.

They used to be a lot worse than they are now; while still used by a lot of scammers/hackers, they're not nearly as bad.

[jackjack]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

Yep, that's my point. The OP's company computer was probably running something that works indiscriminately, as I've seen done. That said, WOT does now make the distinction, and dot.tk itself checks out as "Trustworthy."

The other possibility is that you are running malware that is hosts-redirecting your attempt to access dot.tk, redirecting to a spoof server that does have malware on it... do you get 77.243.130.175 when you ping dot.tk?

The second is what I'd think it is -- if the issue is with visiting dot.tk itself.

They used to be a lot worse than they are now; while still used by a lot of scammers/hackers, they're not nearly as bad.

I don't think so. It seems to me that it has the same, low scam rate

[ranlo]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

Yep, that's my point. The OP's company computer was probably running something that works indiscriminately, as I've seen done. That said, WOT does now make the distinction, and dot.tk itself checks out as "Trustworthy."

The other possibility is that you are running malware that is hosts-redirecting your attempt to access dot.tk, redirecting to a spoof server that does have malware on it... do you get 77.243.130.175 when you ping dot.tk?

The second is what I'd think it is -- if the issue is with visiting dot.tk itself.

They used to be a lot worse than they are now; while still used by a lot of scammers/hackers, they're not nearly as bad.

I don't think so. It seems to me that it has the same, low scam rate

It's possible that the ratio is the same and that it's the fact that there's so many more people using TK's now that it doesn't "feel" the same. Kind of like if there's 1:100 rate of crime, you will feel that there's a lot more criminals when there's 100k people vs 1k, when really it's the same.

[mprep]

All this is true, but the OP specifically said dot.tk, and I'd be rather surprised to see the registrar itself distributing malware.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.

Yep, that's my point. The OP's company computer was probably running something that works indiscriminately, as I've seen done. That said, WOT does now make the distinction, and dot.tk itself checks out as "Trustworthy."

The other possibility is that you are running malware that is hosts-redirecting your attempt to access dot.tk, redirecting to a spoof server that does have malware on it... do you get 77.243.130.175 when you ping dot.tk?

The second is what I'd think it is -- if the issue is with visiting dot.tk itself.

They used to be a lot worse than they are now; while still used by a lot of scammers/hackers, they're not nearly as bad.

I don't think so. It seems to me that it has the same, low scam rate

It's possible that the ratio is the same and that it's the fact that there's so many more people using TK's now that it doesn't "feel" the same. Kind of like if there's 1:100 rate of crime, you will feel that there's a lot more criminals when there's 100k people vs 1k, when really it's the same.

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

[ranlo]

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

I get ya. I actually started up a few tk's on my own after doing research on them again. And I'm not a scammer/malware abuser, :p.

[mprep]

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

I get ya. I actually started up a few tk's on my own after doing research on them again. And I'm not a scammer/malware abuser, :p.

As moth of my sites are experiments which don't earn enough to be able to sustain even a .com domain, I use a free .tk domain which allows me to experiment freely without worrying that it'll be suspended.

[ranlo]

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

I get ya. I actually started up a few tk's on my own after doing research on them again. And I'm not a scammer/malware abuser, :p.

As moth of my sites are experiments which don't earn enough to be able to sustain even a .com domain, I use a free .tk domain which allows me to experiment freely without worrying that it'll be suspended.

True, that's another good reason to use them, . Also, the benefit of .com over .tk is solely about SEO. Other than that there are no differences. And that only matters because .tk is a country-based domain and .com is universal.

[mprep]

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

I get ya. I actually started up a few tk's on my own after doing research on them again. And I'm not a scammer/malware abuser, :p.

As moth of my sites are experiments which don't earn enough to be able to sustain even a .com domain, I use a free .tk domain which allows me to experiment freely without worrying that it'll be suspended.

True, that's another good reason to use them, . Also, the benefit of .com over .tk is solely about SEO. Other than that there are no differences. And that only matters because .tk is a country-based domain and .com is universal.

Aoso .tk gives more privacy. In a .com domain, you have to pay for whois protection while .tk gives it for free. That might be a negative point of the domain too.

[ranlo]

Well at least I'm trying to contribute by showing tyat not every .tk website is a scam/malware-overrun website.

I get ya. I actually started up a few tk's on my own after doing research on them again. And I'm not a scammer/malware abuser, :p.

As moth of my sites are experiments which don't earn enough to be able to sustain even a .com domain, I use a free .tk domain which allows me to experiment freely without worrying that it'll be suspended.

True, that's another good reason to use them, . Also, the benefit of .com over .tk is solely about SEO. Other than that there are no differences. And that only matters because .tk is a country-based domain and .com is universal.

Aoso .tk gives moreprivacy. In a .com domain, you have to pay for whois protection while .tk gives it for free. That might be a negative of the domain too.

Actually, a lot of registrars give free privacy. The problem is if you're running an actual business (or really anything where you want authority) you need to leave it public as transparency (stores, authority blogs, etc.).