Re: Just ran Hijackthis. Can you help?

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: 20 May 2005 16:10:26 GMT

In article <1116599271.139191.55720@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <mikesmith9999@hotmail.com> wrote:
:Now my Yahoo Mail link reads:

:http://us.f514.mail.yahoo.com/ym/login?.rand=13kvu6pmlsnt3

:Is this a problem?

I use yahoo from time to time, and I have seen very similar links.
Yahoo spreads its load over multiple servers. The IP block registration
for us.f514.mail.yahoo.com looks legitimate.

I have not figured out what the rand= portion of the URL is used for
by Yahoo; I -usually- only see it when I am using an older browser
and Yahoo has dropped back to an older interface version. 

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