During the time when this blog has been mistakenly labeled as a hack site by Chitika and Adsense, I did a search in Google seeing what sites are linking to this blog site. Interestingly I found out that from ThreatExpert that there are malwares that blocks raymond.cc using hosts file and redirects it to 127.0.0.1. Logically thinking, if a virus blocks raymond.cc, it only meant one thing which is the author of the malware doesn’t want the infected user to be able to visit raymond.cc, probably to get help in removing the malware. You can take a look at the ThreatExpert reports by doing a search in Google on www.raymond.cc site:threatexpert.com.

Another interesting thing I found out is there was a malware removing tool called Remove-it by PCButts1. Do note that this version of Remove-it is different from the RemoveIT by InCode Solutions. Remove-it claims to have 60000+ signatures to remove all variants of rogue scanners, desktop or homepage hijackers, trojans, codec’s, and related malware or spyware. It also has the ability to update your hosts file blocking many sites and one of the sites that are blocked is www.raymond.cc.

I got curious so I downloaded Remove-it and ran it on my test computer running Windows XP since it can only support Windows 2000 and XP. There is a part where it asks the user whether to allow Remove-it to modify the hosts file. Hitting Y key will instantly update the HOSTS file blocking 16,000+ websites including raymond.cc which PCButts1 label as Thieves and Trolls.

remove-it blocks raymond.cc

Initially I was offended but it only lasted for a few seconds. PCButts1 claims to be a Microsoft MVP with MCSE, MCSD, MCT, A+, Network+ certification and part of the antivirus and spyware community but with a TERRIBLE REPUTATION. I am not going to link to PCButts1 Remove-it tool but you can definitely find it by googling pcbutts1. The first link points to the official PCButts1 website but the rest seems to be links to article that is attacking PCButts1 such as pcbutts1 is a pirate/thief, pcbutts1 exposed not a microsoft MVP, taken to court and etc.

If you are using the paid version of MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware, its malicious website blocking module blocks pcbutts1′s website and because of this, PCButts1 tried to fight back by adding malwarebytes into the block list. Obviously PCButts1 failed miserably simply because there are more Malwarebytes users than Remove-it.
Malwarebytes blocks pcbutts1

Try checking PCButt1′s website with URLVoid and the result is DANGEROUS because 4 engines flagged it as detected. I am not worried about PCButts1 at all but just to warn my readers to beware of this person and avoid anything to do with PCButts1. If for some weird reason you cannot access raymond.cc but no problems on other websites, press WIN+R and type %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS and open it with notepad. If you see raymond.cc in the list, you will have to remove it.


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