Posted: 5/29/2011 4:47:57 PM EDT
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I live in a place where I access the internet through a shared router.
Today while doing some updates, my browser crashed and it had an unusual web address in the header: proxy://11764f10-2a3d-012d-b978-12313d01e201/ Is there any way to determine if this is a proxy setup to intercept any of my internet access or log my activity? Its probably nothing, but thought I would run it through someone more knowledgeable about this than myself. Thanks! |
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The de-obfuscator tool I use says that is URL: http://0.0.45.244/ That is definitely a proxy or device, as it's on the local network. It may be the cable provider though, sometimes they interject DNS queries to non existent domains and put up a web page with ads on it, and sometimes they outright inject ads. My guess, is the crash was a messed up ad, it might have been malicious some ad networks don't adequately review the ads they let people put up, so there are drive-by infections on legit ad networks. Nice huh? Take this as a reminder to update your browser and programs and move on. It's probably nothing.
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