Re: [Full-disclosure] Wierd firefox symptom

From: Daniel H. Renner (dan_at_losangelescomputerhelp.com)
Date: 06/07/05

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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:46:04 -0700

    I have a client that stayed at a hotel, the Crowne Plaza UN in New York.
    While there, she used the hotel's Internet connection with her laptop.
    She was running Windows XP Pro and Firefox v1.0.3 - no problems with the
    connection.

    Upon return, when she tries to go to her specified homepage, it instead
    tries to access the hotel's (I'm assuming here) proxy or autorization
    server - no, no proxy settings set.

    I've installed Firefox v1.0.4 and still get the same results - it will
    NOT view that website. Changed homepage to Google and can surf fine,
    but will NOT go to that original home site.

    So, yes - I've seen it...

    Cheers,
    Dan

    On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:40:25 -0400, "Stan Bubrouski" said:
    > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:40:25 -0400
    > From: Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski@gmail.com>
    > Subject: [Full-disclosure] Wierd firefox symptom
    > To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
    > Message-ID: <122827b9050606204017b2b409@mail.gmail.com>
    > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
    >
    > Hey,
    >
    > I don't ordinarily send messages like this, but I find it kinda
    > disturbing. I opened up firefox today (v1.0.2 I know its old but I
    > haven't used this PC in a while), and typed:
    > www.espn.com
    >
    > into the address bar only to find myself at:
    > http://www.megago.com/l/?
    >
    > I checked the address bar history and it indeed showed that I had
    > typed http://www.espn.com
    >
    > So I tried again. I made sure I typed www.espn.com and once again
    > ended up at http://www.megago.com/l/?
    >
    > The third time was a charm. ESPN actually loaded. Checked firefox
    > directories for any rogue extensions or modified files and nothing had
    > been modified since I updated the User Agent Switcher extension on
    > 5/16/05. I ran NAV and MS Anti-Spyware and nothing was found. Which
    > makes sense since I only use Mozilla and have A LOT of sites blocked
    > using adblock extension. So I'm kind of at a loss. I can't reproduce
    > it atm but I'm just wondering has anyone else seen this before and
    > could it just be a firefox bug?
    >
    > -sb

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