So their new tool seems pretty cool. Take for example the virtual pet site at NeoPets.com. This site has been targeted by typo-squatters to serve pornographic-themed ads if it is misspelled. One such misspelling, neoppets.com, is currently serving ads promising naked photos of Britney Spears or other adult images. Kids these days are screwed up enough as it is… we don’t need to be feeding them a constant flow of smut, popups and spyware each time their chubby fingers can’t spell something on the keyboard correctly. Strider could potentially help us out here:

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.

Of course, it can only be installed on Internet Explorer. Go figure.

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