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"from=breadcrumbs" page hijacking?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
August 21, 2009
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Hello! I have no awareness of having signed up for Robohelp or of updating Adobe recently, but suddenly when I try to look at my local weather map I'm getting this URL instead:

http://www.weather.com/activities/health/coldandflu/?from=breadcrumbs

Does this have ANYTHING to do with Robohelp or Adobe? You seem to be the only forum discussing "breadcrumbs" a someting other than recipe ingredient! Or does anyone have any idea what it is?

If not, please feel free to delete this.

- Michael

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Wirely

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I had been having the identical problem with Firefox on my home computer, but not on my work computer; and I found this forum thread to be the answer:

http://www.fz1-forum.com/forum/bar/1893-weather-com-messed-up.html

The short answer is: it has nothing to do with Adobe. It is a browser cache problem and is solved simply by clearning the cache.

I have Firefox at work set to clear the cache every time the browser exits, explaining why I only saw the problem at home.

RoboWizard

Inspiring

Hi there

This should have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Adobe. I cannot fathom a way the forums would do this.

I do know that sometimes shady web developers can do things to hijack pages. Perhaps that's what happened in your case. You visited the "Link of doom" and maybe the page had code that set this up silently.

Cheers... Rick

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Many thanks Rick! Please feel free to simply delete the comment then so

it won't reflect on Adobe.

My Avira Antivirus program told me it was denying access to something

called feebs.gen last night (and no, I wasn't on any kinky web pages! LOL! It

just popped up while I was writing an email from AOL!) so maybe that has

something to do with it.

Thanks again!

Michael

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In a message dated 8/21/2009 12:00:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

forums@adobe.com writes:

Hi there

This should have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Adobe. I cannot

fathom a way the forums would do this.

http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/9792/misfortune.gif

I do know that sometimes shady web developers can do things to hijack

pages. Perhaps that's what happened in your case. You visited the "Link of

doom" and maybe the page had code that set this up silently.

Cheers... Rick

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RoboWizard

Inspiring

Hello again Michael

You must be infectious! One of my browser favorites points to Weather.com. Moments ago I went to check it and whaddya know? I'm getting the same thing you are. Looks like Weather.com has something screwy going on. I keep getting directed to the cold and flu report just as you cited.

Initially I took notice that the favicon for Weather.com was that of an Adobe icon. I thought that was rather odd!

I think I'll see if there is a place to report this to the weather.com webmaster/webmistress.

Thanks... Rick

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