Re: Global.msads.net Login Screen

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:17:11 -0700

I would not be so quick in stating he is not being phished.
That something that seems to be a passport login is appearing
from the msads.net domain is not right.

While I do not use MSN all the same I have regularly noticed
my DNS cache has resolved servers in this domain (perhaps
related to the newer search experiments of MS). 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Malke" <noreply@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:unlEzWlAFHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Malke wrote:
>
> > Brian D wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I am getting a popup window requesting my userid and psw. The title
> >> on the MS website is "global.msads.net" and on some others it is
> >> ad.doubleclick.net. That is to say it is a request to log into either
> >> of the above depending on which website I am at. Strangely also
> >> occurs using netscape.
> (snippage)
>
> Just as an update: I plugged the url into A Better Whois and the domain
> is definitely owned by Microsoft. I don't know why you would be getting
> MSN ads, but at least you'll know you aren't getting phished. Do you
> have MSN for Internet access? I don't have anything from MSN on any of
> my computers so maybe that's why I didn't get any popups on the Windows
> computer. Here's the Whois info:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/53mta
>
> Malke
> -- 
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"

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