EE wrote:
Rich Gray wrote:
EE wrote:
...
What I've always wanted to figure out when I get one of those "YOUR
MACHINE HAS BEEN HACKED! CLICK HERE TO FIX IT" scam pages is to figure
out where it came from, in the sense of trying to figure out the chain of
urls from the page I requested to the scam page. This would allow me to
identify and report the compromised/scummy ad/analytics server to the site
I'm accessing with the strong suggestion that they stop doing business
with said ad/analytics site.
I've never been able to figure this out from the available tools, but
could easily be missing something. I suspect that the use of scripting
allows the bad guys to cover their tracks. Some sort of logging mechanism
that recorded each loaded url along with the url the load was called from
would do the trick.
I have not been seeing those messages. What site pops up one of those? You
should be able to find out where it comes from if you use uBlock Origin and
use element picker mode.
It has been a while and not that often. The domains which actually served
the scam pop-up ads are obviously throwaways, so no point in mentioning
them. Long gone. I was curious about any tool that would let me trace the
chain of urls back to whoever served the link into the page I was requesting
so that I could complain to the owners of the desired page about scummy
content they were enabling.
I do have a philosophy of accepting advertising sites AS LONG AS THEY DON'T
INTERFERE WITH THE CONTENT. So sites that cleverly have animations dancing
over the pages, sites which reduce the content area to a small part of the
screen, etc. are on my naughty list and I sometimes take the time to enter
them in my hosts file. (I don't block ads, I block sites which spawn
obnoxious ads.) Autoplaying audio is very high on the list. One of the
more annoying things currently is the 'subscribe to our mailing list' popups
which seem almost ubiquitous. (I usually feed them a made up address at
their own domain.) Anyway, I've never found the time to setup blocking
which conforms to my philosophy.
All this crap would stop in a heartbeat if Google and other search engines
would simply allow users to rate a site and deprioritize or flat out block
sites sites in their search results based on their feedback and/or the
aggregate of the other search engine's users. Users could optionally go
into detail about their dislike. Aggregate info would be published, so site
owners would see how their crappy pages and their crummy ads and analytics
were causing loss of traffic. Bet it would have an effect.
Thanks for the info! I'll have to look into some of the mentioned tools
when I do have time.
--
Rich (Pull thorn from address to e-mail me.)
SeaMonkey - Surfing the net has never been so suite!
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