Microsoft Fixit ... or not!

[DennisD]

How's this for an absolute blatant and dangerous misrepresentation ...

 

Link removed, see full size Image of page here ...

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=39323entry239008

 

What you see as a "Microsoft Fixit" page actually contains a download link for "RegCurePro".

 

Not something I think MS would have included in their "take over the world" endeavours.

Edited August 29, 2013 by DennisD

[Winapp2.ini]

I'm going to go ahead and say that's probably not a legitimate microsoft website

 

[Andavari]

but what you see as a "Microsoft Fixit" page actually contains a download link for "RegCurePro".

 

A download link to "Microsoft Breakit".

[hazelnut]

Am I missing something here? I only get a Fatal Error message on that page link.

[Andavari]

Am I missing something here? I only get a Fatal Error message on that page link.

If you're using IE to look at it maybe Microsoft have blacklisted/blocked it, Comodo Dragon loads it with no problems.

 

I personally see that site as bogus/fake/rogue and marked it in Web of Trust (WOT).

 

Screenshot of them trying to look like an official Microsoft site:

https://dyp.im/GBfSGCmGaG

[hazelnut]

Using Opera 12.16 sandboxed I see

 

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in /home/content/57/11250257/html/MICROSOFTDLL.COM/wp-includes/cache.php on line 570

 

EDIT>> managed to get to it by other means.

 

The fatal error I see was shown on the password recovery tab.

[Alan_B]

Using Palemoon I see

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in /home/content/57/11250257/html/MICROSOFTDLL.COM/wp-includes/cache.php on line 570

[Nergal]

Sounds like it's a page with a vulnerability exploit, thus some of you get an error page

[DennisD]

Loads OK with Opera 12.14 sandboxed, Firefox 20 sandboxed, and IE7. Strange.

 

Here's a full size scrolled image of the entire web page, and I'll remove the link from my initial post although I don't think there's anything risky to be had by simply accessing it, and I emailed Microsoft yesterday with the obvious suggestion that they get it taken down. ...

 

[Alan_B]

Obviously the Microsoft Fixit tool has been run on their own web-site with the inevitable consequences of patching Windows

[Willy2]

Any one who takes more than a cursory look at this webpage/picture knows that this is VERY suspicious. I have visited too much Microsoft webpages to fall for this trick.

[Nergal]

Any one who takes more than a cursory look at this webpage/picture knows that this is VERY suspicious. I have visited too much Microsoft webpages to fall for this trick.

Umm anyone who is regular visitor to this site (piriform) maybe but the majority of the public falls for fake virus scanners and a minority, but still significant portion enough to make it profitable, fall for the phone call

this is Microsoft calling, we have detected a virus on your machine. Please go to this website and apply the micro soft fix it patch, this way we can kill the virus from this location.

[Andavari]

fall for the phone call

 

My mothers boss had fallen for the phone call thing, and a local PC repair shop found over 80 serious infections on her Win8 system.