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dakota 02-19-2005 09:24 PM

Possible IDN Spoofing detected.
 
Why does the ShopForum use spoofed URLs? I have a browser that is vulnerable to spoofed URLs, so I have a security tester installed that produced this warning:

"Possible IDN Spoofing Detected

"The URL on your location field is shown as:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N3227.mercedesshop/B1034481;sz=468x60;a=AH1;ord=[timestamp]?

"Though the real (spoofing) URL (may look like the same) is:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N3227.mercedesshop/B1034481;sz=468x60;a=AH1;ord=5timestamp 12?"

I thought DoubleClick was one of those ad ware outfits.

Bill Wood 02-20-2005 11:35 AM

No spoofed URL's here
 
We do not use spoofed URL's and we do not use Doubleclick.
You may have spyware on your computer.
All of our URL's should start with either:

http://www.peachparts.com
or
http://catalog.peachparts.com

dakota 02-20-2005 12:07 PM

Thank you, Bill. If I sounded accusitory, I didn't mean to.

I've discovered the spoof source - it is the Tire Rack ads at the top of some ShopForum pages. Holding the cursor over the ads yields the doubleclick URL.

I didn't think it was my computer because I have a Mac, and I haven't seen any spyware for it yet.

Regards,

Bill Wood 02-20-2005 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dakota
Thank you, Bill. If I sounded accusitory, I didn't mean to.

No problem.
You are correct about Tirerack. They use Doubleclick to track their clickthrus from MercedesShop.


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