soft-now.net
Perion Network Ltd
Domain Information
Soft-Now is operated by Perion Networks, a monitization and distribution platform. SweetPacks distribuetd bundled software included a toolbar and additional (potentially unwanted) set of utilities. The domain soft-now.net registered by Perion Network Ltd was initially registered in May of 2014 through GODADDY.COM, LLC. This domain has been seen distributing various forms of adware and potentially unwanted programs directly or through packaged installations. The hosted servers are located in Dublin, Dublin City within Ireland which resides on the Amazon Technologies Inc. network. The domain uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform from the EU (Ireland) region datacenter. The domain is associated with the publisher Perion Network Ltd. who is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Registrar:
GODADDY.COM, LLC
Server location:
Dublin City, Ireland (IE)
Create date:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Expires date:
Friday, May 29, 2015
Updated date:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
ASN:
AS16509 AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.,US
The domain soft-now.net has been seen to resolve to the following 2 IP addresses.
ec2-54-72-188-32.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
July 9, 2014
ec2-54-229-180-225.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
July 9, 2014
Subdomains
Google Analytics:
UA-33103856
Title:
“Soft-Now: Freeware and Trialware Downloads”
Description:
“Software catalog with tens of thousands of freeware, shareware and trialware listings. Free software downloads. New listings are added daily!”
Network:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), running an EC2 instance
Web server:
Microsoft-IIS/7.5 (ASP.NET) (Version: 4.0.30319)
Notes from the site - “Soft-Now is distributing modified installers which differ from the originals but are compliant with the original software manufacturer's policies. Download manager™ is an install manager that will manage the installation of your selected software. In addition to managing the installation of your selected software, Download manager™ will make recommendations for additional free software that you may be interested in. Additional software may include toolbars, browser add-ons, game applications, anti-virus applications, and other types of applications. You are not required to install any additional software to receive your selected software. You can completely remove the program at any time in Windows' Add/Remove Programs.”
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