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Re: Google-jacking?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Mon Dec 1 15:11:40 2003

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:08:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0312011425070.5905-100000@ordinaryworld.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


FWIW, it's not a virus, it's something infrastructure related.  All of the
systems that I've seen this on have all the latest DAT's and the proxy
servers it sits behind are virus scanning as well (for both email and web)
and use alternate vendors

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Dave Temkin wrote:

> Has anyone seen a situation on their internal networks where going to a
> (non-Google) page "Hijacks" them and they end up with either the Google
> front page or a broken link page?
>
> This happens on machines both with the toolbar and without, and we've
> seen it on machines on different networks/running different OS's.
>
> Just curious.
> Thanks,
> -Dave
>

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