Web Tools
New from Microsoft Research: Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol
When a user visits a Web site, her browser may be instructed to visit other third-party domains without her knowledge. Some of these third-party domains raise security, privacy, and safety concerns. The Strider URL Tracer, available for download, is a tool that reveals these third-party domains, and it includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting. The tool also enables parents to block typo-squatting domains that serve adult ads on typos of children’s Web sites. The Strider web site is also home to numerous reports and screen caps.
See Also: Direct to New Technical Report: Strider Typo-Patrol: Discovery and Analysis of Systematic Typo-Squatting
“We propose a new approach, called Strider Typo-Patrol, to discovering large-scale, systematic typo-squatters. We show that a large number of typo-squatting domains are active and a large percentage of them are parked with a handful of major domain parking services, which serve syndicated advertisements on these domains. In particular, we investigate the questionable practice of serving adult advertisements on typos of children’s websites.”

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