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Kool Host? Do you know them?
Old 05-01-2006, 04:01 AM Kool Host? Do you know them?
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Wait before you search for koolhost.!! I found one website on the net hosted by KoolHost. They were giving Very unbelievable offer of free hosting.

But suddenly my Avast antivirus alerted me of an unknown virus.
So I immediately aborted the connection.
Has someone here faced same things??
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Old 05-01-2006, 09:26 AM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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I've never heard of them.
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Old 05-01-2006, 10:54 AM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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I've never heard of them.
Might be a doggy reseller program. But all people if you face them do double check your antivirus before opening your browser with their http
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Old 05-01-2006, 01:53 PM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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I don't really see koolhost's direct responsability in this.
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Old 05-01-2006, 08:52 PM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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"don't really see koolhost's direct responsability in this. "

They are responsible for this because their site tries to install a virus onto your computer. This is quite common with warez sites.
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Old 05-01-2006, 10:43 PM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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I found one website on the net hosted by KoolHost.
Unless I'm reading things wrong, it isn't Koolhost's website that tries to install a virus. It's one of their customer's websites.
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Old 05-03-2006, 01:15 PM Re: Kool Host? Do you know them?
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Unless I'm reading things wrong, it isn't Koolhost's website that tries to install a virus. It's one of their customer's websites.
www.koolhost.com (www dot koolhost dot com) can't be their customers website.
They don't even have a google PR not necessarily but may be penalized.
The thing they are gonna input is a trojan to get ur system32.
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