visitorville.com

[cwyman]

Hey all, I know this isn't exactly an XP forum issue, but I love all of you so much that I had to bring this up for discussion.

I have several network analyzer boxes using a product called ntop.

One of the things that I keep seeing at my sites is this

http://www.visitorville.com.

Now, to my knowledge we do not use this product/website, yet I am seeing on approximately 80% of the sites that I am checking.

I checked out the website and it appears to be one of those sites to give you a visual reality of your websites/resource and how often they are visited and how they are visited.

Is it possible that they might be some type of spyware website/application that just wants you to use their product to do their secret data mining?

If anyone can shed some light on this product/website, I would be greatly appreciative.

TIA

Carrie

 

[1101001100110101]

does your analyzer box say were the traffic is coming from? Probably somone on your network installed the ap would be my guess.

 

[bcastner]

Edit your HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc using notepad.

Be carefull that notepad does not add a ".txt" extension to the file when done. The file must not have an extension.

Append to what is there:

127.0.0.1

http://www.visitorville.com

 

[cwyman]

Hi Thanks for all your input.

1101001100110101,
I have traced the traffic to a user on the segment and know for a fact that they have not loaded the app.

bcastner,
We do not typically use the hosts file. I have 4000 nodes that I monitor and I don't know if I want to take the time implement your suggestion although I believe that it would work.

We decided to user our websense server to block traffic from that site. We shall see what happens!! I did manage to get confirmation from all upper management that we do not use that product for data mining.

I'll try to let you know if this was a good or bad idea.

Thanks again!!