minor annoyance

orionlion82 · 07-05-05, 06:00 AM

i often type the address into firefox for ocforums, and half the time, i get some Totally Bogus Search page. its not a matter of misspelling or typos, as its happened when ive used extreme care while typing it in.
probably about 40-50 % of the time now this happens, and its been more and more frequent.
the only thing i can think of is someone trying for some extra web traffic, and if thats the case, it seems like its a bit shady, so i wanted to give a headsup.

the address is :

(pop up blockers & security software on!)

http://newnet.qsrch.com/dpark?s=ocfourms.com&prt=nn01

it says "welcome to ocforurms.com - notice the MISSPELLING even when the address is typed correctly into the browser.

David · 07-05-05, 06:26 AM

http://newnet.qsrch.com/dpark?s=ocfourms.com&prt=nn01

I spy a misspelling on your part :-P

Malpine Walis · 07-05-05, 08:24 AM

Even so, fourms is not a word. Either that is a holding place for yet another pron site to be or it is a former pron site. Why they do that I don't know but when the .xxx tld opens up (if Icann ever pulls the buttplug out and admits that they ought to have done that years ago), then someone can open up ocforums.xxx and every other concievable variation all they want and we all will know to only go there if that is what you are really after,

orionlion82 · 07-05-05, 08:30 AM

Edit: malphine, ocforums.xxx? oh, no!.... "my overclocked (whatever) is giving me problems, and runs too hot for comfort, so before i start getting burns..."
oh, so much badness, i dont even want to think about it...yikes!
at least the stupid factor is decreased by the .xxx...

meh. i dunno...

ocforurms.com - is not =
ocfourms -is not =
ocforums.com
seems theres money in misspellings, because its one of those bogus search engine thingies that pollute the net now...i wish people would find another way to make money off me...

its happened again, and i was looking at it, seems to be something with autocomplete and guessing for the name, ive turned it off, so one can manually enter addresses without FF second-guessing what is typed in and giving you something bogus from some list of ""if this is typed in, yeild this as a result" sort of things,...
i guess thats how its done, but im not sure... and since that diddnt really work-

i allso adblocked the heck out of teh bogus site just now with wildcards and all and now what pops up even when i put in the address of the bogus site???
OCforums!

thats a nice little course reversal...
so i guess if anyone else gets this issue, ive found the solution that works...

Malpine Walis · 07-05-05, 11:09 AM

It has happened to us before. overclocker.com and overclockers.ws (the second was an old addy for the forums) have both been pron sites in the past. I checked them both out before typing this message to make sure they were safe and oddly enough the old forums addy looks like it is another of the same services that you found looking for the forums before. Weird.

07-05-05, 06:00 AM	Thread Starter #1
orionlion82 Member Join Date: Jul 2004	minor annoyance i often type the address into firefox for ocforums, and half the time, i get some Totally Bogus Search page. its not a matter of misspelling or typos, as its happened when ive used extreme care while typing it in. probably about 40-50 % of the time now this happens, and its been more and more frequent. the only thing i can think of is someone trying for some extra web traffic, and if thats the case, it seems like its a bit shady, so i wanted to give a headsup. the address is : (pop up blockers & security software on!) http://newnet.qsrch.com/dpark?s=ocfourms.com&prt=nn01 it says "welcome to ocforurms.com - notice the MISSPELLING even when the address is typed correctly into the browser.
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07-05-05, 06:26 AM	#2
David Forums Super Moderator Overclockers.com Lead Editor Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Hiding from Americans and making pretty colours in a drybox in St Andrews	http://newnet.qsrch.com/dpark?s=ocfourms.com&prt=nn01 I spy a misspelling on your part :-P __________________ David J. Nelson MChem(Edin) PhD(Strath) AMRSC [Academia Profile] OC Forums Super Moderator // Overclockers.com Editor The Workhorse: [Lenovo W510] Intel Core i7-720QM / 8 GB DDR3 / nVidia Quadro FX880M / Crucial M4 256 GB SSD / Windows 7 The HTPC/Server: AMD Phenom X4 9650 / 6 GB DDR2 / nVidia 8300 / 5 TB of HDDs / Antec Solo II Case / Windows 7 The Gaming Rig: AMD Llano A6-3650 / 4 GB DDR3 / nVidia GTX260 / 2x 500 GB HDD in RAID0 / Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Case / Windows 7 The Benchmarking Setup: Various LGA775 chips / Asus Rampage Formula / 2 GB OCZ 1066 MHz DDR2 / nVidia Quadro NVS 285 / 320 GB HDD / Windows 7 My research fellowship is eating all my time, so I may be slow to reply to emails and private messages.
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07-05-05, 08:24 AM	#3
Malpine Walis Disabled Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Banned Camp	Even so, fourms is not a word. Either that is a holding place for yet another pron site to be or it is a former pron site. Why they do that I don't know but when the .xxx tld opens up (if Icann ever pulls the buttplug out and admits that they ought to have done that years ago), then someone can open up ocforums.xxx and every other concievable variation all they want and we all will know to only go there if that is what you are really after,
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07-05-05, 08:30 AM	Thread Starter #4
orionlion82 Member Join Date: Jul 2004	Edit: malphine, ocforums.xxx? oh, no!.... "my overclocked (whatever) is giving me problems, and runs too hot for comfort, so before i start getting burns..." oh, so much badness, i dont even want to think about it...yikes! at least the stupid factor is decreased by the .xxx... meh. i dunno... ocforurms.com - is not = ocfourms -is not = ocforums.com seems theres money in misspellings, because its one of those bogus search engine thingies that pollute the net now...i wish people would find another way to make money off me... its happened again, and i was looking at it, seems to be something with autocomplete and guessing for the name, ive turned it off, so one can manually enter addresses without FF second-guessing what is typed in and giving you something bogus from some list of ""if this is typed in, yeild this as a result" sort of things,... i guess thats how its done, but im not sure... and since that diddnt really work- i allso adblocked the heck out of teh bogus site just now with wildcards and all and now what pops up even when i put in the address of the bogus site??? OCforums! thats a nice little course reversal... so i guess if anyone else gets this issue, ive found the solution that works... Last edited by orionlion82; 07-05-05 at 08:41 AM.
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07-05-05, 11:09 AM	#5
Malpine Walis Disabled Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Banned Camp	It has happened to us before. overclocker.com and overclockers.ws (the second was an old addy for the forums) have both been pron sites in the past. I checked them both out before typing this message to make sure they were safe and oddly enough the old forums addy looks like it is another of the same services that you found looking for the forums before. Weird.
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