Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Contact your web-provider I tried to visit your website from my workstation - it runs on Mozilla instead of explorer and there was no sign of the porn banner thing - then I used the explorer on my labtop and was asked to pemit the porn thing being installed - but no thanks - the problem is that to many explorers are not updated with the latest safty patches and to many has way to low security in the preference setting on their explorer. all this security kills the fun of going to websites with a lot of different effects but rather that then what you have just experienced regards Ruben Nathan Wajsman wrote: >Yesterday, a Dutch LUGger told me that upon visiting my web site, he was >offered to install a "free porn" toolbar or something like that, >immediately upon arriving at the main page. I was shocked and would like >first of all to inform everyone that this is NOT something I have >initiated. I have since tested it myself at work and at home, and sure >enough--you come to my site and look at the contents in the normal way, >but in the background a download and installation program is running. My >hosting service (Dot5Hosting in the UK) is being quite useless about it >and claims that they see nothing. But since I am able to replicate the >problem on two different computers, I can only conclude that the problem >is on their end. Has something like this ever happened to you, what is >the technique that the crooks used, and most importantly, what can I do >to get rid of this (short of taking my site down)? > >Many thanks for any advice you might have. > >Nathan > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html