Re: browser redirected -- malware or glitch?
- From: "Hogyu" <nothing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:39:09 +0900
oops...posted in the wrong group. Apologies.
"Hogyu" <nothing@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For several weeks, a single Web site that I try to go to, www.webdate.com,
> using IE6/XP (both current) is being redirected to google.com. No other
> Web site seems to be affected. The webmaster at the site in question just
> answered an e-mail confirming that the site is up and running normally. So
> much for my love life :-)
>
> This behavior occurs in Opera 8 as well. I'm bounced to google.com. The
> behavior also occurs in both browsers when I try to address the site by
> its IP address instead of its URL.
>
> I tried playing around with some extensions to the URL -- typing in
> www.webdate.com/ncr, for example. In IE, I get the browser's 404 message
> that includes a link to the base URL to try again. If I click on that
> offered link to the webdate home page, it's back to google.
>
> In Opera, it looks like the browser is putting up a page for me from the
> remote server with a 404 message instead of generating the 404 message
> locally at my computer. If I try the same address with the /ncr extension,
> the 404 message says /ncr was not found on "this server," along with an
> announcement of the Apache version, the site's URL and the port number.
>
> But in both browsers, if I enter www.webdate.com/index in the address
> line, it's off to google again. Looks like any request for a real page at
> the site is redirected -- but redirected by my computer/router or by the
> remote site?
>
> The hosts file appears benign; a long list of adware sites all redirected
> to localhost. Spyware and virus scans are negative.
>
> Same behavior (IE only) on a second computer also on the local network.
>
> I'm behind a wireless router to the Internet, WEP, SSID broadcasting off,
> MAC address limits on wireless connections. No routing table specified;
> one port forwarded to my computer, which is also firewalled. Nothing
> pertinent I can see in my firewall settings.
>
> Hijack This returned a few items I wasn't familiar with, but I checked
> them out and they seemed benign.
>
> Any suggested next steps would be appreciated. Is there any way to figure
> out whether I'm being redirected from the requested site to google or
> whether the request is actually leaving my computer (or router) aimed at
> google? Any freeware or shareware tools that might help figure this out?
> Or are there some things I should have already checked but didn't mention
> above?
>
> Thanks.
>
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