Re: browser redirected -- malware or glitch?
- From: "wayne" <nope@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:42:29 -0500
since you are using wireless are you using a notebook if so i would
go down to the nearest starbucks etc.. and see if the problem still
exists . Since you are using an IP address and still getting
redirected it is very odd?
What IP are you using?
Wayne
Hogyu wrote:
> 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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