Searching google shows that this has happened before by many others who accidentally type GET / HTTP/1.1 on the command line.
To someone who expects only / to be returned, this seems like adware, but it actually is not; GET - being a command, not the HTTP request - tries to get two things: / and 1.1 from HTTP - which happens to resolve to www.HTTP.com. So there actually is no problem. GET / returns the expected result. GET HTTP/1.1 returns the "adware" ** Summary changed: - Adware in libwww-perl + "Adware" in libwww-perl (not a bug - just a common misunderstanding) ** Description changed: + This is not a bug, nor is it actually adware or malware of any kind. The + report simply results from a misunderstanding of the semantics of the + GET command. The syntax is not that of standard HTTP, and running + + GET / HTTP/1.1 + + Actually tries to download two pages: / and HTTP/1.1 - the latter being + one of those ad/search related sites. + + Original description follows. + + ----- + Using Ubuntu Gutsy, package is libwww-perl (version 5.805-1, which should be the latest) Typing GET / HTTP/1.1 on the command line invokes lwp-request, a perl script. But the HTML code that it dumped contains the expected list of all directories in the local root, followed by unexpected _adware_ (result of GET / HTTP/1.1 is attached). Notice that at the end of the valid and requested HTML code, code has been appended by the script which: 1) Includes, though the use of frames, an external advertising site. 2) Uses the Windows/DOS newline style for the appended code, which obviously was not generated in the same manner of the valid code (which appropriately outputs standard UNIX newlines) -- "Adware" in libwww-perl (not a bug - just a common misunderstanding) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199371 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
