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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin
I have just read this on the register and followed it up on usenet: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=BvSqb.24184%24jW5.427571%40twister.tampabay.rr.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.email http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c91e821d.0311051525.70aa9920%40posting.google.com It seems folks at Belkin followed up on verisign concept and implemented web redirection for marketing purposes (web request hijacking) on the router itself. There they did not even bother about mispelled domains or bad requests and just decided that every 8 hours it would be ok to replace your original webrequest (from any computer connected through that router) with one going to their own server advertising their product/service. How original of them! But for other router manufactures present on this list, make notice - DO NOT DO IT IN YOUR OWN PRODUCT EVER. I (and from newsgrousp there are appears to be many others with same opinion about it) do not want routers modifying my network packets without my knowledge about it and definetly not for marketing of your own products. In the mean time after this post, I'm off to datacenter room to look for any belkin products I can spot, after that follow up to Fry's would be necessary to buy replacements. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [email protected]
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