On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mark Phillips wrote:

> I have a Debian Linux system (testing/Sarge) with Mozilla 1.7.2 that I
> use for email and browsing. I am getting a strange redirect page when I
> surf the net with Cox. It says - "Oops. There may be an issue with the
> URL Forwarding service for this domain, in which case our technical
> staff is currently working the situation. Otherwise, this domain is
> currently under construction and will be back online soon." The rest of
> the page is a search page with different categories (travel,
> entertainment, etc.) I have a screen shot, if you are interested.

That type of search page reminds me of various pages for many domains that
are based on typos of popular domain names.

So what exact URL were you trying?

> I don't get this with all pages, just some - for example google,
> fidelity, cox.net, as well as some more obscure pages. I can also get
> this from a link on a page that takes me to another page on the same
> site. It also seems, that once I get that message, I cannot get to that
> web site again unless I shut down the browser and start again. It does
> not happen all the time, but the frequency seems to have been increasing
> in the past month. Roughly, 10% at the start of the month and 30-40%
> now. Also, I have been getting slower and slower response time while
> browsing and retrieving email - including server timeouts.

I am not sure if this is related, but I use the following in my
/etc/sysctl.conf:

# 28/Apr/2004 reed
# some old webservers can't be reach with Explicit Congestion Notification
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0

> 1. Can a Linux system become infected with what is commonly called
> "spyware"?

Yes, it could. I have only heard of one though: titrax which is a Athena
(libXaw) based time tracker for Unix. (It wasn't malicious though.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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