Slugsmashers site appears to be phishing .

[dangavel]

Went to check our something on slugsmashers site ( steamachine.com ) last night and my antivirus detected numerous threats among them phishing, best avoid it at the moment .

 

[clam1952]

Try steammachine.com it's a double m. https://www.steammachine.com/ which is OK here.

 

[dangavel]

I just spelled the url wrong, its the same site and my antivirus doesnt like it one bit. . sometimes some software is over cautious. this is avast premium.

 

[pware]

I just spelled the url wrong, its the same site and my antivirus doesnt like it one bit. . sometimes some software is over cautious. this is avast premium.

There are some phishing and scam/malware sites that "cyber-squat" on URLs that are very similar (one or two characters missing or different) to legitimate web sites. I tried both URLs, with and without the extra "m", and my browser simply reported that it was unable to connect to the incorrectly addressed site. Safer to have an AV program that over-reacts than one that doesn't react at all, as annoying as that can sometime be.

 

[slenderman8888]

There are some phishing and scam/malware sites that "cyber-squat" on URLs that are very similar (one or two characters missing or different) to legitimate web sites. I tried both URLs, with and without the extra "m", and my browser simply reported that it was unable to connect to the incorrectly addressed site. Safer to have an AV program that over-reacts than one that doesn't react at all, as annoying as that can sometime be.

That’s close. The practice you are referring to is actually called “typosquatting” Since the bad actors purposefully use a typo of the legitimate domain to get traffic from those who end up making the typo in the URL.

 

[clam1952]

My browser said the Domain was for sale for the incorrectly addressed site, nothing like consistency!

The actual site was fine according to Malwarebytes Browser guard.

 

[wreeder]

By definition, a phishing site is a site pretending to be another site in order to fool the user into logging in with a user name and password which is then recorded and used to forward the user to the real site. In this case, the real site doesn't require a login so it can't be a phishing site.

 

[JAGG]

My AV also doesn't let me in. Sandbox is the right solution then to rip anything out.

 

[JCitron]

I was able to connect using the correct address. Everything appears fine. Typo-squatting is annoying and it got many coworkers in trouble with the IT security folks after "things" got flagged.

 

[dangavel]

This is all rather amusing , it's all the fault of my over active anti virus software, as far as I know there's no steamachine.com, masquerading as the actual site, I just made a typo. ......
i must admit it's hard to envisage why slugsmashers site would be a phishing sight as he doesn't ask for any info from users as far as I can remember.....

 

[RW912]

. Safer to have an AV program that over-reacts than one that doesn't react at all, as annoying as that can sometime be.

I cannot agree more to this.