[sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?

[Richard Brooks]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron G. Jacquot" <thescum at surfree.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?


> >         Anyone tried Google today? I get a largely blank page that
claims
> >to be from "DoubleClick.com" and two very sus links that are supposed to
> >re-direct you but don't. I'm a bit concerned because I had Java &
> >Jave-script up at the time and I'm not sure how to check for the latest
> >batch of key-loggers.
>
> I just used google and groups.google, and everything was fine.  You might
> want to clear your cache and/or cookies and try again.
>
> I have seen similar behaviour before.  Sometimes I'll hit a page with a
> nasty banner ad, and as soon as the banner loads, it takes over the whole
> page.  If I hit "back," I go back to the original page, and as soon as the
> banner reloads, it boots the pags off again.  I have to hit the stop
button
> before that happens.
>
Also, not that you'd do such a thing, going anywhere near the adult sites
might set your default page to some redirector without asking!

That's happened to me loads of times!  ;-)

Richard.