Somedomain

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Some handbooks advise you to set your network domain name to somedomain.com as a metaphorical example. This is a mistake as the owners of the somedomain.com seem to also provide adware.

If you do set your domain name to somedomain.com then instead of showing errors such as 403 Errors, 404 Errors and so on, you get a Link Farm-style page in the distinctive yellow and blue. This can affect any operating system.

This image shows what happens when the misconfigured PC visits a made up a link which does not exist at time of writing: www DOT adwaresucksuniteagainstit DOT com. The result should have been a 403 error but instead the image (right) is shown

Looking at the HTML code, the page seems to work through the typical Javascript pop-under, getting its code from ads DOT drivelinemedia DOT com. It also attempts (but fails) to set the home page to www DOT searching DOT net.

The Links in the body of the page link (via ad DOT doubleclick DOT net) to major online retail companies. So it may be suspected that someone is making money out of this scam.

If one does not own a domain name, for example in a non-institutional location such as a private home; one should use one of the following four domains which have been reserved for that purpose (note the proceeding dot):

.test

.example

.invalid

.localhost