that is a *horrifying* story. i'll certainly join you in boycotting belkin products while they maintain such a heinous policy and unapologetic tone. the mind boggles when you consider that the maker of a NIC chip could do something similar, or a video card maker could paint pop-up ads right into the frame buffer, a keyboard maker could make the keyboard change "http:..." strings to other URLs.
i think the ghastliest line was that "The router would grab a random HTTP connection every eight hours and redirect it to Belkin's (push) advertised web page." you would really begin to suspect your devices were consipiring against you--and in this case, you'd be right!! the following page has more info, including belkin's weak response: http://www.marco.org/content/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36 just do a google search on "boycott belkin" thanks for sharing, frank -rei ----- Forwarded message from Frank Roberts - SOTL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Hi All For a week or so now I have been starting up my laptop in the office and receiving a immediate pop-up spam add. Havinf all filters turned on including security, popups and cookies I was going nuts trying to figure out how I had became infected with a url transfer spam program in my Linux box. Thanks to a posting on another list I was able to ascertain that what is happening is that a router company has initiated an add campain of popups through their routers. The URL that always appears is: http://filter.belkin.com/setup.asp?SN=BEL13KK0&RP=21456&IP=192.168.0.2&FV=2.00.04 which is a Belkin Router add. The following story explains the situation: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205&tid=153 My solution to this issue is to post notices on all know BB that if you buy Belkin products expects spam from Belkin. Thanks Frank - ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Rei Shinozuka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ridgewood, New Jersey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
