Can a domain registrant have his domain taken away?

Can a registrant lose the right to use a domain name if he is abusing the
privilege?

I used whois to find out the identity of the entity that has been changing
my home page to his home page in IE6 on a daily basis, despite my efforts to
keep him out, using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. This is a porn site, and
the best I've been able to do is keep the site from actually appearing; but
that doesn't stop it from resetting itself as my home page every day.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Norm Donchin

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In article <8Ng2b.251870$Ho3.33503@sccrnsc03>, on Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:04:04
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| Can a registrant lose the right to use a domain name if he is abusing the
| privilege?
|
| I used whois to find out the identity of the entity that has been changing
| my home page to his home page in IE6 on a daily basis, despite my efforts to
| keep him out, using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. This is a porn site, and
| the best I've been able to do is keep the site from actually appearing; but
| that doesn't stop it from resetting itself as my home page every day.
|
| Any advice would be appreciated.

There are a number of free programs that will stop your browser home page
being hijacked.

Please learn to use google. A quick search
<http://www.google.com.ni/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22home+page%22+%2Bhijack>
reveals the following:

<http://freedownloadswindows.com/windows/6510198/Npust-Homepage-Guard.html>
<http://www.wilderssecurity.net/bhblaster.html>
<http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html>
<http://www.bykeyword.com/pages/detail11/download-11102.html>

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David Postill

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:04:04 GMT, "Norm Donchin"
<> wrote:

>Can a registrant lose the right to use a domain name if he is abusing the
>privilege?
>
>I used whois to find out the identity of the entity that has been changing
>my home page to his home page in IE6 on a daily basis, despite my efforts to
>keep him out, using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. This is a porn site, and
>the best I've been able to do is keep the site from actually appearing; but
>that doesn't stop it from resetting itself as my home page every day.
>
>Any advice would be appreciated.
>

If you don't get results from AdAware and Spybot, checkout this
article.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/in... d8fc3e48c35a3

HijackThis takes a different technique to identify malware. It
generates a very inclusive log, which is then reviewed by experts at
forums like SpywareInfo. You'll likely have answers the same day you
post the HT log.

Cheers,


Chuck

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In article <8Ng2b.251870$Ho3.33503@sccrnsc03>,
says...
> Can a registrant lose the right to use a domain name if he is abusing the
> privilege?
>
> I used whois to find out the identity of the entity that has been changing
> my home page to his home page in IE6 on a daily basis, despite my efforts to
> keep him out, using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. This is a porn site, and
> the best I've been able to do is keep the site from actually appearing; but
> that doesn't stop it from resetting itself as my home page every day.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>
>


he's not doing anything, you're the person responsible for securing your
OS. he's merely doing what you allow. you want to blame someone else for
your ****-up. typical.

the question should be, how do you stop this from occurring? apply
proper OS patches, use anti-spy-ware, such as spybot, use a proper anti-
virus, not the crap put out by norton and mcafee, something like f-prot,
avg, f-secure, sophos... secure your browser, don't allow scripts to
change your settings... for that matter, get a real browser such as
mozilla. you're probably allowing just about everything through, it's a
wonder your machine hasn't felt more pain than a simple homepage change.






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A: None, he just defines Darkness? as the new industry standard..."

"...I see stupid people."

Norm Donchin wrote:

> Can a registrant lose the right to use a domain name if he is abusing the
> privilege?
>
> I used whois to find out the identity of the entity that has been changing
> my home page to his home page in IE6 on a daily basis, despite my
efforts to
> keep him out, using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. This is a porn
site, and
> the best I've been able to do is keep the site from actually
appearing; but
> that doesn't stop it from resetting itself as my home page every day.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
Norm:

Is he putting the files on your PC or is changing your DNS records? Is
the site on your PC or is it hosted?

It can be done either way.

Slug
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