McAfee SiteAdvisor Blog

NASCAR is one of the most popular and fastest-growing spectator sports in the United States, but that doesn't stop the occasional race track from going under, like Tioga Motorsports Park did in 2005. It looks like their troubles started before that, though: as far back as 2002, someone had registered the domain "tiogamotorsportspark dot com" and set up a different kind of racy site-- one we rate red.

Actually, they did something a little trickier than that: They set up a redirect from there to another red site, impliedscripting dot com, and then from there to the red site repuc dot info and finally from that to the security-risk porno site advancedhunt dot com. On Advanced Hunt, files continue to load from a series of sites identified only by IP address.

Unfortunately for any unsuspecting race fans, the trouble doesn't end there. Our exploit expert Harry says the site is also host to Spy Sheriff, a program that pretends to be anti-spyware and is nearly impossible to remove once it's installed. Spy Sheriff, also known as "Pest Trap," tries to trick computer users into buying the program by warning them about made-up threats to their systems.

Here's a video-- watch the status bar in the lower left corner of the window as it cycles through the different risky websites. Then, notice the dialog that pops up warning about infections: that's Spy Sheriff.