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lokem · #1 03-20-2002

Morpheus is redirecting users to a different web site when certain addresses are typed into the address bar in IE.

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Just a few weeks ago Morpheus released their newest edition dubbed “preview addition 1". However, it seems this latest version has reverted back to using “spyware” as a new invasive, unseen, little beast silently takes hold of one’s IE browser. What is now happening is that when one types the name of most common shopping websites, such as buy.com or amazon.com, your browser recognizes this call and rather than moving directly to that page it calls a separate URL first. Examples are as follows when I type in the bold URL it goes to the non bolded URL first:

buy.com
http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/sho...type=3&subid=0

ebay.com
http://www.qksrv.net/image-280514-2202641

amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/re...e/buyersport04

Source: http://www.speedy3d.com/doc/article.php?fldAuto=3&faq=5

Other info:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175305.html
http://www.arstechnica.com/

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