On Friday, 02/10/2006 at 12:36 EST, David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh yes... Belkin. These are the people who sold a router that > periodically hijacked your port 80 traffic and redirected it to their > own adservers. See: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/ > > "The router would grab a random HTTP connection every > eight hours and redirect it to Belkin?s (push) advertised > web page." > > Perhaps they make fine equipment. But I won't buy any.
In the interest of full disclosure and fairness, that was more than 2 years ago and Belkin responded a mere 4 days later, removing the redirection. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/11/belkin_disables_router_spamming_feature/ And you're right, Belkin makes fine routers. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
