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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Full-disclosure] Wierd firefox symptom > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
