As if people didn’t have enough to worry about, I saw this tricky little scheme on my wife’s site. If you are like most site owners out there, chances are you are constantly checking out your site statistics to find more information about where your traffic is originating from. If you do the same, you may be used to a section like the following, which shows you what sites are referring to your site:

The referal that made it into second place somehow caught my eye as being suspicious. Upon research, I found that the site will try to install some not-so-nice software on your computer if you visit the site and click around a little. You obviously do not want to click on this link to find out where your site is listed.

Obviously, to help protect yourself, if there is a really suspicious looking domain in the list of referring links, don’t click on it unless you are sure it is a legitimate site. Just type the domain in Google and see what comes up if you are not sure (in this case, tvsetmp3.com). It will become clear from the Google responses whether or not you want to visit this site.

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