Last days i’ve seen some comments about a site called pocodot,i even saw some comments like : dont visit this site,it installs keyloggers,it spams your e-mail,bla bla about malware etc.I don’t really know if the comments are reliable at all.The site has been detected by WOT for phising,viruses,etc.
URLVOID:
Report 2011-02-12 20:15:46 (GMT 1)
Website pocodot.com
Domain Hash 66510a32719188c4089570654281812c
IP Address 174.129.200.178 [SCAN]
IP Hostname ec2-174-129-200-178.compute-1.amazonaws.com
IP Country US (United States)
AS Number 14618
AS Name AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.
Detections 1 / 18 (6 %)
Status SUSPICIOUS
it is only detected by WOT.
What do you think?Any1 here except polonus that can work with malzilla and analyze this site?Personally,i would never trust this site.
It is a site similar to Facebook… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4d8sfmKC8
no way
Well Amazon is behind pocodot.com, I get a “Can not connect master server, please check mysql configure.”, trying to visit htxp://174.129.200.178/ Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Webutation 40 out of 100 points WOT 4 reds…
Blacklists according to robtex: Blacklists for 174.129.200.178
md5:d1f491a404d6854880943e5c3cd9ca25:129
md5:f6cdaf792082fb935a9573804763a633:129.200
md5:356cdc91f906b7fcd0689b67e6d691c3:129.200.178
md5:4660ba8339ddc6323bf611ea4c3b5750:129200
md5:058c2a164ca439bc6bf3ef2bc795f0c5:129200178
md5:bf8229696f7a3bb4700cfddef19fa23f:174
md5:67e8bbe6ffeccf3d2315333f77e98547:174.129
md5:61339b500309f8b275d8bab91abba8bb:174.129.200
md5:98105b1bf3dbba2d83426a5433abff50:174.129.200.178
md5:4df2455d22847a00e4baefdb148bc0a2:174129
md5:2ab0e9ff0b1340130acb5907d55b413b:174129200
md5:b643dc209e87ed59d1f443a1961b2901:174129200178
md5:8f85517967795eeef66c225f7883bdcb:178
md5:3644a684f98ea8fe223c713b77189a77:200
md5:91a01056d6d02025c2edfecfcf76ffe2:200.178
md5:2f06e2ffc54234439bbed00ce84d265a:200178
polonus
WOT Is user comments. Be sure to remember it is there to help you make a better decision based on peoples thoughts. Users with no credability can easily mark it as infected scaring the more amateur user into not going to that site. It is a good site (WOT) and for the most part, directing people away from this site and others like it is essentially a their job. But the problem the site has seems to be over-exaggerated. Personally I too would stear clear of this site.
It seems anytime the site name is mentioned a comment is made. Like if I make a comment on Youtube with the site name in my comment, the comment gets sky rocketed with thumbs up. Here, it seems that a bot is made to generate a message and I’m certain that on any other forum the same action would happen.
WOT is not a reliable program. A site advisor should advise the user of malicious activity on that site. Read most WOT comments. If someone simply does like like the site or the software they have they mark it red.
Hi folks,
It is a bit annoying we have now two threads running on what is for some the annoying pocodot, for the other thread see: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=76290.0
Agree with Dieselman here that web rep tools are as good as the users that provide the data, but still WOT’s ratings is valuable if you check out for yourself with other resources. WOT did on occasions detect genuine issues that others do not or rather would not touch, you have to establish with other resources what is valid, genuine info or not - McAfee by acquiring this has been running siteadvisor into the ground kind of, http://www.webutation.net/ is a community web rep tool that misses a lot, this could help: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url= , then we have the independant M86security browsing, and this one: http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/ , Norton Safe Web, etc. combine several results to decide what it is.
On the other hand as an example where views may differ - WOT users may look at “available.above.net” differently than for instance major parties of the content industry, so a reputation report can always come with certain bias, downplaying an annoyance because of vested tracking or commercial interests is at the other end of the spectrum, one should decide for oneself after looking at the different sides
what it really comes down to,
polonus
That’s the reason for not taking seriously WOT or even Web Rep.
Until they transform Web Rep into a security tool… (which is not nowadays).