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09-21-2009, 04:44 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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Safe way to determine origin of a web address?
Okay, so I have this address that keeps popping up in my history of sites no matter how many times I delete it off my IE history of visited pages.
It comes back every time. I've googled it and find a ton of random sites that include this address. I don't want to post it up here because I don't know if it is spyware or whatnot, but I'm not sure how to find out what it is or where it came from without potentially getting redirected or infected. Any ideas? It contains the phrases with dot com attached: friendconnect.gmodules gadgetsgoogle friendconnect truthbomb.blogspot opensocial All of which I recognise as legit sites but there is tons of jargon inbetween and I don't know what to do. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks!
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09-21-2009, 04:50 PM
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Junkie
Location: My head.
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Dude, I totally called dibs on stalking noodle.
It has to do with an RSS feed you subscribed to. Each and everytime you clear your history and log back into your google mail or some other account run web application it redownloads itself as a cookie. To verify my theory, clear you history, cookies and any active log ins right about now and check immediately after without logging back into anything. |
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09-21-2009, 04:50 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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Well, truthspot is possibly either a religious education site or a jehovah's witness site so one or the other of those deities may be trying to send me to hell for my porn collection, but I'm still worried.
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Here's how life works: you either get to ask for an apology or you get to shoot people. Not both. House Quote:
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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09-21-2009, 05:27 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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most likely it involves some website you subscribe to, login under, and the cookie re-engages itself.
this is just an educated guess, though, as I have only what you have provided for us.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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10-21-2009, 10:54 AM
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Broken Arrow
Location: US
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use firefox, it's safer.
Yeah I know has very little to do with this issue, but I had to say it. I'm a windows administrator, so I say it often 
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10-21-2009, 05:31 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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Thanks y'all. I've actually cleared all my cookies and went way back on clearing and deep cleaning stuff and it hasn't come back again.
I appreciate the feedback.
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Here's how life works: you either get to ask for an apology or you get to shoot people. Not both. House Quote:
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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