Websense, leading globally in web security & web filtering production software, has warned Internet users who are in search of Halloween sites. The Halloween sites are expected to be in for a nasty surprise, as users who mistype web addresses, having them somewhat wrong, run the risk of heading to sites operated by online creeps and spreading viruses or spyware. Users making a visit to unidentified sites are advised to at once put up the shutters of any such windows that pop up and are not allied to the main site, and are not ever expected to let such sites deploy programs on their PC.
These sites are intentionally registered with names parallel to actual sites, with a view to catching people who mistype addresses. As reported by the computer security firm, the practice called ‘typo-squatting’ or a ‘typo-attack’ is primarily widespread at Halloween, which typed a general misspelling of ‘halloween’ into a search engine, and returned a site that made an attempt to deploy a pernicious program on the computer in question.
