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Empty Home Page, Meta Refresh To Content

From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:03:37 -0500

While doing research on this malware through ads thing i did what I
often do, opened a web page into my text editor (TextPad) which loads
the HTML. I did this to http://www.ynetnews.com/. This is what it
loaded:

                <!-- SystemTeam, Realcommerce ltd. 2006 -->
                <!-- Vadim::20060125 -->
 
                <HTML>
                 <HEAD>
                  <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;
url=/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html">
                 </HEAD>
                 <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" style='margin:10' scroll=no>
                 </BODY>
                </HTML>
 
That's interesting. The actual page is basically empty, but they use a
Meta Refresh with a 0 delay to load the content.

Why would anyone do this?
 
Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
<http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/>
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com


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