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G'day mate,

I'm forwarding your response to aus.computers as I see you've trimmed 
newsgroups to a.c.f and there were a couple of blokes elsewhere who 
took an interest in this topic.  They might be interested in your 
comments too.

Thanks very much for your input.

In article <11bspwxzxxi7s$.8fxwhzn6ts7n.dlg@40tude.net>, 
Art Iculos Libres <articulos@loslibres.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:02:30 GMT, Phred wrote:
>> 
>> A recent article in alt.msdos.batch recommended the freeware program 
>> 1-4a Rename for major file renaming projects.  So I went to the URL
>> <http://www.1-4a.com/rename/> to have a squiz at the thing.
>> 
>> For some reason, when I first went there, and subsequently when I went 
>> "back", I got a warning message (presumably from Norton Internet 
>> Security Firewall) that "Microsoft Internet Explorer is attempting to 
>> access the Internet" (or something pretty close to that phrasing).
>> 
>> Now this was pretty obvious, as that's what I sent it off to do. :-)
>> 
>> However, I *don't* get this message when I browse any other sites.
>> In fact, until tonight, I hadn't seen that message since I set up the 
>> firewall 12 months ago.
>> 
>> So what's so bloody different about http://www.1-4a.com/rename/ ?
>> 
>> Is it some sort of scam?  (Just paranoid of course. ;-)
><snip>
>
>The only two things I see about this website:
>
>1) Using DNSKong and monitoring the AutoFilter window, I see
>    that it sends the browser off to "webcounter.goweb.de",
>   presumably a third-party page counter service; this can be confirmed by
>   looking at the webpage source which has an "href" to webcounter.goweb.de
>   and places the typical 1x1 pixel "image" on the page to do the "load"
>   counting.
>2) The page attempts to load an ActiveX object, but since I have MS IE set
>     to prompt on ActiveX, I declined the prompt to allow loading. The
>     ActiveX control appears to be a Flash animation.
>
>I added "goweb" to my DNSKong "named.txt" file and the page loads fine
>without it or the Flash animation. Not sure if any of this is related to
>your situation, but this is all I can provide after a cursory look.

Cheers, Phred.

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