Fullpageads.info

Do not visit the website fullpageads.info for any reason. Fullpageads.info is an extremely dangerous site, which will cause malware to be downloaded onto your computer without your knowledge or consent.

What fullpageads.info is, and Why You Should Avoid it

It is hard to overstate how dangerous it is just to visit fullpageads.info. At first glance, fullpageads.info looks relatively harmless, albeit slightly dodgy. Fullpageads.info appears to be a quiz page somehow associated with a drawing for $10,000 cash, when you look at it. Fullpageads.info asks, "What would you buy with $10,000?" and then has some clickable voting buttons for different things, like a car, a holiday, etc. If you click on any of the buttons, you get what looks like an entry form for a drawing, complete with an anti-spam code that needs to be entered, along with fields for your name and date of birth. All malware concerns aside, it is extremely dangerous to give out that information, since it can be used to trace your place of birth and combined with the entered information it can be used to steal your identity.
 
The site has a Terms & Conditions page that is extremely convoluted and vague which seems to be there to make it appear that if you enter your information, you are entering in a drawing for a ten-thousand dollar prize. There is also a page of people with current “high scores,” along with a list of first names and numbers, but it doesn't seem to correspond to anything. What are the high scores for? Fullpageads.info isn't telling.

Given the site's domain name, fullpageads.info seems to be intended to draw in people who are searching for a service provider for Internet advertising. This doesn't explain why fullpageads.info contains absolutely nothing relating to advertising, with the exception of the advertising that run in a banner along the page – which seem to be random advertising from legitimate companies. What does explain why fullpageads.info has nothing to do with advertising is the fact that as soon as you view the site, fullpageads.info starts pushing malware onto your computer. The malware is hidden in the System folder and named for something normal and ordinary, like a Flash update. The next time you start your computer, the downloaded malware automatically loads, and then you're in trouble.

Primarily, fullpageads.info promotes a hijacker. So, when you restart Windows after the malware downloads, you will find that when you try to view certain websites, you are redirected to malicious sites instead. In particular, the hijacker downloaded from fullpageads.info causes searches on the major search provider websites, like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc., to cause your browser to navigate to completely unrelated malicious websites. Furthermore, the sites you wind up being redirected to will try to install even more malware, which may have the capability to log, capture, steal and transmit all kinds of detailed information from your computer and based on your computer usage. The simplest way to put it is, fullpageads.info is the starting point for a massive malware assault, which is aimed at stealing as much of your personal information as possible.

Detailed Background Information on Fullpageads.info

Fullpageads.info was initially registered on December 7, 2010, through GoDaddy.com and its privacy service, Domains by Proxy. What this means is that when the fullpageads.info domain was registered, whoever was setting it up decided that they were willing to pay extra in order to keep their actual registration information out of the site's Whois record. So, the official registration information for fullpageads.info is that of Domains by Proxy. Attempts to notify Domains by Proxy of the fact that fullpageads.info is a malicious website were made during the researching of the site; however, these attempts failed due to undisclosed “errors” with the Domains by Proxy website server. Domains by Proxy's contact information, which is provided in the public Whois information for fullpageads.info, is:
 
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Phone:+1.4806242599
FAX:+1.4806242598