When I submit browser-based login credentials to my website, if the submit is successful, several *.png files start getting retrieved from a random server. For e.g. requests for http://legitsite.com/a.png are instead requested from http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/legitsite.com/a.png. xxx.xxx.xx.xx is clearly a malicious entity inserting itself into the request. This behavior is observed only when accessing my website from one particular computer. I've used 3-4 other computers with no such issue.
Malwarebytes detected no malware on the comp. After I cleared my browser history and cookies, the behavior disappeared.
Does this mean that hijack attempts can reside in a browser, perhaps even in cookies? The problem might have disappeared but I am unsure whether merely clearing browsercache might have done the trick.
Pointers or links to reading material would be appreciated. I am not sure even what keywords to search for. Thanks.
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skh12
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posted: Feb. 2, 2013 @ 6:26p
what browser? i had a Firefox plugin redirecting all my Google searches, don't recall the specific name
scholar10
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posted: Feb. 2, 2013 @ 6:29p
skh12 said: what browser? i had a Firefox plugin redirecting all my Google searches, don't recall the specific name
Firefox -- and yes, I do have 2-3 plugins on it. I didn't dare try IE because I didn't know how to see requests from IE (in Firefox I could use firebug).
Obviously, I will now check the plugins...most are reputable i think. Is there a way to tell which plugin is the thief? Also why did clearing history/cookies rid the issue?
I've seen redirectors in the Cache files before. Clearing out all the history / temp files made the issues go away. I never tried to figure out what it was called though, just got rid of it.
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