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This vaguely reminds me of that (was it Internet Explorer?) plugin/extension that tried to detect phishing sites by prefetching all the links on a page. There
by thwarted 17y ago
This vaguely reminds me of that (was it Internet Explorer?) plugin/extension that tried to detect phishing sites by prefetching all the links on a page. There was a big uproar with admins and there was an apache rewrite rule floating around to detect the user-agent and block these requests.
I can't remember the name of this, though, so I'm having trouble searching for it. Maybe 2006 or 2007 was the time?
- mmelin 17y agoYou're sure you're not thinking of Google's Web Accelerator? It wasn't made to prevent phishing, but to speed up browsing, but it caused the problems you describe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator
- thwarted 17y agoI am sure I am not thinking of GWA. I want to say it was installed somewhat implicitly as part of some virus checking software that people didn't really ask for.