Thottbot warning
I don’t know what this means, if it means anything, but I’m going off half-cocked anyway:
World of Warcraft users are all familiar with Thottbot, a Web site that automagically compiles information about the game, providing a (theoretically) searchable database of useful info. (The huge traffic post-expansion has really swamped the system something fierce.)
I noticed the other day that Google searches were turning up hits for Thottbott.com and Thotbot.com. I don’t know for sure that these are evil hacker sites, although given that I couldn’t find anything about alternate domain names on the official site and given the number of sites out there loaded down with keyloggers and Trojans, it’s worth always being careful when going to a site off the Internet to make sure it’s the real site you want. (The Whois search doesn’t reveal all that much about the real Thottbot, making it impossible to verify the fakes.)
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Thottbot.com is owned by …
thottbot.com
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
Thotbott.com and Thotbot.com are owned by …
Habel Enterprises, Inc.
Hong Kong.
Habel Enterprises, Inc. runs this web site
Mega Monkey
http://www.megamonkey.com/
They don’t seem like hacker sites, nothing really interesting coming or going (or launching) from there, but they both seem like ad sites–Habel is probably just trying to syphon some ad dollars.
Comment by f. chong rutherford — January 29, 2007 @ 16:14
Mmmm, monkeys.
Comment by Beau — January 29, 2007 @ 16:21
wowhead.com
Just say no to Thottbot. :p
Comment by Nicole — January 29, 2007 @ 16:27