Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] OT: Hijacked Browsers

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Hijacked Browsers
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 21:34:45 +0100
Sad!

Amities
Philippe

Le 17 déc. 2016 à 21:30, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

>     It was an interesting investigation.  I tried using the same approach 
> with the annoying ads on the right side of Facebook pages, but it didn't work.
> 
>> 
>> Good!
>> 
>>>    I found the culprit in the Earthlink webmail page, thanks to a burp in 
>>> viewing yesterday evening.  There are two instances where the HTML code is 
>>> calling "Google_ad" for the top banner, left tower, and right tower:
>>> 
>>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_top_banner.jsp
>>> 
>>> and
>>> 
>>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_left_tower.jsp
>>> 
>>> and
>>> 
>>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_right_tower.jsp
>>> 
>>>    This is a somewhat innocuous function, the real culprit being 
>>> Google_Ads, which is downloading malware that bypasses ad blocking.  
>>> Yet another piece of evidence that justifies the efforts in removing 
>>> anything related to Google (deGoogleisation) from my machines, the 
>>> only exception being Google Earth on the laptop I'm presently using.
>>> 
>>>    What worries me about this is that the activity indicator for my 
>>> dialup dialer showed that my machine was sending data as well as 
>>> receiving during these periods of activity.  That could very likely 
>>> mean that Google was using the pubads.js script as a means of harvesting 
>>> data, for which Google has long been suspected.
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
> -- 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
> 

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz