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Re: [OM] OT: Hijacked Browsers

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Hijacked Browsers
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:03:05 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I've learned a bit more about this.  For some time I've noticed a lot of 
download activity when I'm online, and in the past couple of weeks I've had ads 
pop up on the right side of the screen when I'm going through webmail.  I 
right-clicked on one of these ads yesterday and found that the root URL is 
"turn.com".  I added that URL to my firewall as well as the resident "hosts" 
file.

     Something else I learned is that the download activity stops if I shut off 
the webmail page.  This makes me suspect that there is some code in the 
Earthlink webmail page that is invoking this "securepubads.g.doubleclick.net" 
URL.  

     According to McAfee, this problem was first detected in May of 2007, and 
is still active.

>
>Chris, take a look at the noscript addon for firefox.
>
>Mike
>
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