Guest RJK Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Has anyone got the "heads-up" on what happens when I click on my ebay toolbar, to go to the ebay.co.uk, When I clicked on it tonight there seemed to be some attempt to redirect me to http://www.rover.ebay.....lotsofgobbledygookhttp://www.ebay.co.uk\Moregobbledygook ..... and I got an IE7 "Page cannot be displayed" ..MVP hosts file :-) ....perhaps ? or, if you like show me ebay "within" another page, sort of thing. I did a quick Google on it and got the impression that http://www.rover.ebay.co.uk is an affiliate of ebay. It seems that one cannot click on the "ebay" in the ebay toolbar to get straight to ebay any more, i.e. you have to type it in yourself or add it to Favourites ? (bearing in mind that one is encouraged to install it because of the "security" benefits i.e. it is supposed to alert you if you are directed to spoofed ebay web-sites). TIA regards, Richard
Guest VanguardLH Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Re: ebay toolbar - is it becoming crapware ? ... RJK wrote: > Has anyone got the "heads-up" on what happens when I click on my ebay > toolbar, to go to the ebay.co.uk, > > When I clicked on it tonight there seemed to be some attempt to redirect me > to > http://www.rover.ebay.....lotsofgobbledygookhttp://www.ebay.co.uk\Moregobbledygook > .... and I got an IE7 "Page cannot be displayed" ..MVP hosts file :-) > ...perhaps ? > > or, if you like show me ebay "within" another page, sort of thing. I did a > quick Google on it and got the impression that http://www.rover.ebay.co.uk is an > affiliate of ebay. > It seems that one cannot click on the "ebay" in the ebay toolbar to get > straight to ebay any more, i.e. you have to type it in yourself or add it to > Favourites ? > > (bearing in mind that one is encouraged to install it because of the > "security" benefits i.e. it is supposed to alert you if you are directed to > spoofed ebay web-sites). NOTE: The following unrelated newsgroup was omitted in my reply: microsoft.public.security.virus rover is eBay's advertising server host. So check if you have it listed in your MVP hosts file. I don't use the hosts file to block "bad" sites because the hostname must be specified, and any site can change the name of their host or even make it accept any hostname. For DoubleClick alone, the MVP hosts file have over 50 entries just because there are so many of them used by DoubleClick, and more are to follow. I didn't see a "[*.]rover.*" entry in the MVPS hosts file that I looked at. So maybe some other software you have is blocking that host. You didn't provide the complete URL. It might be that it has some substring, like /ads/, that gets blocked by an ad-block program or ad-block feature within a program. IE7Pro, for example amongst MANY, has a preset list of URL substrings on which to block to get rid of ads. I wouldn't rely on any anti-phish toolbar or filter to accuracy announce that I visited such a site. Those spoof sites disappear in under 4 hours so the phish lists are always too old. They used to stick around 2 to 4 days but with all the reporting going on that has been severely reduced. Sounds good that they disappear but the phishers already know their spoof site is short-lived and already have a pool of others to utilize. Once they spew their spam, they have just a few hours for it to survive along with any site referenced within it. For every phish site that I've ever run across, heard about, or checked in the various phish lists below, the sites are already dead. Sometimes I've managed to see a report and visited that site within an hour of that report and the site is gone (because the report is often not immediate to when the spam attack started that tried to lure users to their new phish site). http://www.phishtank.com/ http://www.antiphishing.org/ http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ It's a good bet that it is something on your end doing the blocking to eBay's rover host.
Guest RJK Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 Re: ebay toolbar - is it becoming crapware ? ... "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message news:FaSdnaJKktBmvz_VnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@comcast.com... > > NOTE: The following unrelated newsgroup was omitted in my reply: > microsoft.public.security.virus > > rover is eBay's advertising server host. So check if you have it listed > in your MVP hosts file. I don't use the hosts file to block "bad" sites > because the hostname must be specified, and any site can change the name > of their host or even make it accept any hostname. For DoubleClick > alone, the MVP hosts file have over 50 entries just because there are so > many of them used by DoubleClick, and more are to follow. > > I didn't see a "[*.]rover.*" entry in the MVPS hosts file that I looked > at. So maybe some other software you have is blocking that host. You > didn't provide the complete URL. It might be that it has some > substring, like /ads/, that gets blocked by an ad-block program or > ad-block feature within a program. IE7Pro, for example amongst MANY, > has a preset list of URL substrings on which to block to get rid of ads. > > I wouldn't rely on any anti-phish toolbar or filter to accuracy announce > that I visited such a site. Those spoof sites disappear in under 4 > hours so the phish lists are always too old. They used to stick around > 2 to 4 days but with all the reporting going on that has been severely > reduced. Sounds good that they disappear but the phishers already know > their spoof site is short-lived and already have a pool of others to > utilize. Once they spew their spam, they have just a few hours for it > to survive along with any site referenced within it. For every phish > site that I've ever run across, heard about, or checked in the various > phish lists below, the sites are already dead. Sometimes I've managed > to see a report and visited that site within an hour of that report and > the site is gone (because the report is often not immediate to when the > spam attack started that tried to lure users to their new phish site). > > http://www.phishtank.com/ > http://www.antiphishing.org/ > http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ > > It's a good bet that it is something on your end doing the blocking to > eBay's rover host. Thanks for your response. I don't have any trouble using ebay so long as I type ebay's address straight into IE7's URL slot. For a long time, because I'm naturally lazy, I could just click on the ebay icon on the ebay toolbar. Tonight, ...ahem, ....last night, when I did that, IE7's status bar was coughing up a long URL with http://www.rover.ebay* ...not sure if the www was in there, ...some script of some sort I think, and further along - http://www.ebay.co.uk. ...can't ever remember noticing that before now. Am not seeing anything like that no. anyhooo, I uninstalled ebay Toolbar, ...agreed - false sense of security ! ....but every little helps. regards, Richard
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