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Thread ID: 48442 2004-08-23 04:28:00 [b]What the hell are you guys trying to get onto my computer?[/b] Rob99 (151) Press F1
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264497 2004-08-23 04:28:00 Just reciently this website (PF1) has been trying to connect me to server-nz.imrworldwide.com... is this another thing you want us to fill out or what? It is not comming through properly? Maybe if you want us to give you info start your own thread and post a link to it instead of hijacking our browsers! You would probally find that more people would fill it out if you asked them to nicely. Rob99 (151)
264498 2004-08-23 04:34:00 They do?

I run Firefox-0.9.3 on Gentoo 2004.1 and have not noticed anything remotely like that?

What browser?


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
264499 2004-08-23 04:35:00 Firefox-0.9.2 on XP Pro Rob99 (151)
264500 2004-08-23 04:35:00 & IE6 Rob99 (151)
264501 2004-08-23 04:39:00 "imrworldwide" to Google will tell you what it is. It seems to have been used by a few ISPs. It might not be PressF1/NZ PC World/IDG to blame. ;-)

The world is full of people who want to know what you are doing. ]:) 		Graham L (2)
264502 2004-08-23 04:40:00 its RedSheriff which pcworld use to monitor useage. easy enough to block ;-)

"redSheriff measures and analyzes user response to custom-designed interactive media
for marketing purposes. Contact is made to remote servers outside of the site from
where the information is gathered.

RedSheriff embeds a piece of code into pages of certain client Web sites which gives
them statistical site usage information about the pages visited, duration of page
view, location previous to accessing the RedSheriff Client Web Site, navigational
habits of the user, and browser and operating system. Although the code is not used
to collect any personally identifiable information, consent from the user is not
requested nor is a disclosure given to the user regarding these actions. In addition,
if you reject their RedSheriff "Unique Visitor Cookie" which identifies you by an
assigned random number, the functionality of RedSheriff Client Web Sites is adversely affected." 		tweak'e (174)
264503 2004-08-23 04:43:00 Is this a pop up thing you mean?????

All those sort of things i have blocked on mine so havent noticed anything.

?:|


Any further info to give on what it is? what it does? is it a survey thing?

no probs here.

Firefox 0.9.2


beetle 		beetle (243)
264504 2004-08-23 04:44:00 It doesn't load here, Firefox 9.2. But it wastes a lot of time trying to connect. It does send a bit of a negative message - does anyone know what it is - and why we are being subjected to it?
R2 		R2x1 (4628)
264505 2004-08-23 04:47:00 No iI dont think it is a normal popup maybe one of those messenger things (I dont know) the page loads fully only down in the status bar instead of saying Done it tells me it is connecting to another place Rob99 (151)
264506 2004-08-23 04:54:00 which bit of RedSheriff didn't you get ?

have a look a the page source ......

"

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
var _rsSI=escape(window.location);
var _rsRP=escape(document.referrer);

var _rsCI="idg-nz";
var _rsCG="0";
var _rsND="//server-nz.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/";

if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>=4) {
var _rsRD=(new Date()).getTime();
var _rsSE="1";
var _rsSV="";
_rsCL='<scr'+'ipt language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="'
+_rsND+'j?ci='+_rsCI+'&rd='+_rsRD+'&se='+ _rsSE+'&sv='+_rsSV+'"><\/scr'+'ipt>';
} else {
_rsCL=''+_rsND+'m?ci='+_rsCI+'&cg='+_rsCG+'&si='+_rsSI+'&rp='+_rsRP+'';
}
document.write(_rsCL);
//-->
</script>
<noscript>
//server-nz.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=idg-nz&amp;cg=0
</noscript>
" 		tweak'e (174)
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