full-disclosure - Wierd firefox symptom

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Date: Tue Jun  7 16:46:16 2005
From: dan at losangelescomputerhelp.com (Daniel H. Renner)
Subject: Wierd firefox symptom

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 <stan.bubrouski@...il.com>
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Wierd firefox symptom
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> Message-ID: <122827b9050606204017b2b409@...l.gmail.com>
> 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