Re: http requests getting redirected to coolsavings.com

From: Akash Mahajan (akashmahajan_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/22/04

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    Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 11:55:32 +0530
    To: "WINTERS, KELLY (SBIS)" <kw7436@sbc.com>
    
    

    a google.com search on spayware coolsavings.com reveals this link

    http://www.spyany.com/program/article_spw_rm_CoolSavings.html

    How to remove the coolsavings spyware. You ought to try that.

    A bit OT isn't BARC what I think it is? Spyware infection ! Oh, well
    it is the MS curse

    regards

    Akash

    On Thu, 20 May 2004 13:23:20 -0500, WINTERS, KELLY (SBIS)
    <kw7436@sbc.com> wrote:
    >
    > sounds like a dns problem.... take a look at your zone file w/ nslookup.
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Sonika Malhotra [mailto:sonikam@magnum.barc.ernet.in]
    > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:09 AM
    > To: security-basics
    > Cc: Sonika Malhotra
    > Subject: http requests getting redirected to coolsavings.com
    >
    > Hello List,
    >
    > I have a user-network which access the Internet through a proxy server
    > (squid - 2.5-stable )
    > We are facing a problem since few days. Any request for commonly accessed
    > sites like www.google.com,www.rediff.com, www.yahoo.com gets redirected to
    > the
    > www.coolsavings.com
    >
    > The TCPdump for a session is attached for reference.kindly give some
    > pointers to How is this happening?
    >
    > The following attached file is client-pc to proxy-server communication.The
    > extra contents( packet data contents) have been removed considereing the
    > file size.(still it is 51K). From the client PC the site www.google.com is
    > hit and the traffic dump is taken using the ngrep tool.
    >
    > Regards
    > Sonika
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