Appscout had an article about a "new" cleanup program for windows. The
article pointed to
http://www.cleanme.tk/ for downloading it. But I was
leary of the TLD so did some checking. This looks suspicious to me. Am I
right? Or overcautious?
larry@triggerfish:~$ whois cleanme.tk
>
> Rights restricted by copyright. See
> http://www.dot.tk/en/pageF00.html
>
> Domain name:
> CLEANME.TK
>
> Organisation:
> BV Dot TK
> Dot TK administrator
> P.O. Box 11774
> 1001 GT Amsterdam
> Netherlands
> Phone: +31 20 5315725
> Fax: +31 20 5315721
> E-mail: abuse: abuse@dot.tk, copyright infringement:
> copyright@dot.tk
>
> Domain Nameservers:
> NS01.DOT.TK
> NS02.DOT.TK
> NS03.DOT.TK
> NS04.DOT.TK
>
> Your selected domain name is a Free Domain. That means that,
> according to the terms and conditions of Free Domain domain names
> the registrant is BV Dot TK in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
>
> Due to restrictions in Dot TK's Privacy Statement personal information
> about the user of the domain name cannot be released.
>
> ABUSE OF A DOMAIN NAME
> If you want to report abuse of this domain name, please send a
> detailed email with your complaint to abuse@dot.tk.
> In most cases Dot TK responds to abuse complaints within one business
> day.
>
> COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
> If you want to report a case of copyright infringement, please send
> an email to copyright@dot.tk, and include the full name and address of
> your organization. Within 5 business days copyright infringement notices
> will be investigated.
>
> Record maintained by: Dot TK Domain Registry
>
> larry@triggerfish:~$ dig cleanme.tk
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> cleanme.tk
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34012
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;cleanme.tk. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 94.103.151.195
> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 193.33.61.2
> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 209.172.59.196
> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 217.119.57.22
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-F.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-D.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-G.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-E.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-A.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-C.TALOHA.tk.
> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-B.TALOHA.tk.
>
> ;; Query time: 120 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Apr 1 10:12:01 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 246
>
> larry@triggerfish:~$
>
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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