Were you surfing from a Windows or linux box? It could be on your end if it is a Windows machine. I don't know of anything the hijacks a linux browser.
If it was replicable from another machine then somebody pwned their server. What often happens is the ad servers get jacked and malware spreads through them but it could happen to a site as well. What does the page source show for the links? Are they third party or in house? --- marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a Google News email notice a few minutes ago of an > article that > sounded interesting from svg.org. It was published today. > <http://svg.org/section/Diary>. I started reading, decided to > click on > a link, and was transported to a porn site. In checking > further, it > looks like nearly all of the hyperlinks on the page lead to > different > porn sites. But this is a serious organization and the article > deals > with a serious subject in a serious way. It seems unlikely > that the > author submitted the article with the porn links in it, > particularly > because many of the links from comments posted on the page > also point > to porn sites. > > I've sent the site admin an email about it, but I started > wondering > what kind of security hole might enable a porn link spammer on > a > production basis to gain access to a web site's content and > automagically substitute URLs in content hyperlinks. Any new > known > malware tools out there for doing this kind of thing on a > production > basis? I['ve never encountered anything like it before. My > sniff is > that this is something done by a person who spends all day > doing the > same thing around the web. > > I know I would not be a happy camper if all the links on my > site > suddenly became links to porn sites. So I'm interested in > double-checking my security against any known new exploit that > might > have been used to trash that site. Of course I can't rule out > that a > site admin is is playing a joke on the author of the article. > > FWIW, the site's About page has information about the hardware > and > software they are running. > > Best regards, > > Marbux > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
