Greetings, my site is basically a news portal and contains links to external news sources.
in order to track which stories get the most clicks, i use a dynamically generated javascript redirect that uses a get variable in the address that contains the url of the external site. this variable is parsed to make sure that it is a valid url and not malicious code. in this way when someone clicks on a link, the page is generated and a google analytics cookie is logged which enables me to where people are going when they leave the site. a couple of weeks ago i saw an unprecedented leap in my pageviews and on further investigation found that someone was inserting the urls of pornsites into the the location bar of their browser (or equivalent) and causing my redirect page to act as an intemediary stage in their web journey to porn. at first i thought it might be someone trying to view porn at work, but when the pageviews hit 6000, i realised this was unlikely. nevertheless i changed the code to weed out the porn search terms that were cropping up in the urls recently my site was flagged as containing links to malware, yet there is no trace of any of the malware sites mentioned in the badware report in any of the links on my site. can anyone explain how my site poses a threat to someone visiting it - as far as i can see, the only threat is to those altering the url variable in their location bar... am i missing something? ps - i have also implemented code to strip out the hosts that have been mentioned in the badware report thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message through the Google Groups "stopbadware" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
