[SpamCop-List] Re: OT - drifted to Ave. A Re: [MEDIA] Tsunami spam scammer cuffed

[David 1]

Pop wrote:
> Blammo wrote:
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2005 Pop entered spamcop and left
>> news:cspuda$em3$1 at news.spamcop.net:
>>
>>>     One confusing thing:  HOW could the site know I refused it?
>>> I wonder what I send out when I hit Deny?  Never thought of that!
>>>
>>
>> They don't. If you don't let them set a cookie, you don't send
>> anything. Also, site A does not know if you have a cookie set for
>> site B, your browser will not send a site B cookie to site A.
>>
>>> Ric
> 
> 
> Good point; I should have known that.
> 
> I forgot to turn on my monitor, but ... it's the same things this 
> morning at The Register.
> 
> I verified that there were no cookies in ANY user accounts (XP here), 
> and temp files were none.
> I copied the link from the original post, pasted it into IE, and hit 
> Return.
> Same thing.
>  --  Banner displays, the red one with the cartoon-like logo in the center.
>  --  Asked to download Avenue A Inc
>  --  Deny the d/l
>  --  All stopped.  Done appears in status bar, never loads anything 
> further.
>  --  The banner and one line of navigation buttons appears.  I didn't 
> click any of them.
>  --  An invisible window appears I discovered, about the size of an 
> address label (1 x 3).  That, I think, is where the code stops executing.
>  --  Looking at Source, I see CSS with the usual noCSS tags.  I can read 
> CSS anyway, so no BD.
>    --  I have javascript turned off; but the code is written to still 
> display on non-java.
>      --  The javascripts look like ads.
>      --  The code shows the rest of the page in a table:
> 
> <table id="Teaser"><tr><td><a 
> href="/2005/01/21/dec_cracker_suspect_arrest/"><img 
> src="/_teaser/cuffs.jpg" width="48" height="48" alt="Handcuffs" 
> /></a></td><td><h3><a 
> href="/2005/01/21/dec_cracker_suspect_arrest/">London man cuffed over 
> disaster relief site hack</a></h3>
> <span class="Standfirst">Suspect quizzed afte...
> 
>  --  The text is NOT the same color as my screen, I don't force any 
> colors.  Using my mouse to look, the screen is blank and nothing except 
> the invisible window mentioned already seems to exist onscreen.  It 
> looks like the code snippet above is never executed, but I'm not good 
> enough at this to know where it actually stopped.
> 
> Just for grins, I turned off my firewall for a few seconds and did a 
> Reload; same thing.  I also tried it on my XP Home laptop with the XP 
> firewall and only a cookie manager; same thing.
> 
> Guess it's another one for the "someday" list of mysteries to solve.
> 
> Happy to hear any thoughts on the matter, but I need to move on to other 
> things soon, so time is getting harder to find.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pop
> 
> PS Forgot to mention; mouse-overs on the banner are working too. I 
> clicked a couple of them just now (Jobs and Events) and got exactly the 
> same responses:  New page loads banner, avenue a inc request, page goes 
> to DONE a second or so after the denial. Every time.
>   The cookies I've picked up are:
> netshelter.txt, theregister.co, and techworld, all [2] versions. Each is 
> a tracker, but nbd; they won't live long as I regularly clear them out. 
> No cookies in any other accounts.   This is the ONLY web site I've 
> visited since power down/powering on the machine this am.
>   It has to be my setup, but I'm not willing to turn on Javascripts any 
> further or accept any downloads that are attempted covertly.  I'm just 
> not that curious.
> 

Try going to MSN groups, they are REAL big on Avenue A Inc & see if they 
will load for you

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David 1
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