anyone know what Javascript from these guys is all about: http://a.as-us.falkag.net/

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I found a bunch of temp internet javascripts in my temp directory:

http: / / a . a s - u s . f a l k a g . n e t/

Can't find anything about this on the net- wonder if it had anything to do
with my drive getting fried last night. (lots of read/write errors-) when I
enter the drive through BIOS_ all it says is "GRUB".......

ARGHHH
Thanks
P
 
Anon y mous said:
I found a bunch of temp internet javascripts in my temp directory:

http: / / a . a s - u s . f a l k a g . n e t/

Can't find anything about this on the net- wonder if it had anything to do
with my drive getting fried last night. (lots of read/write errors-) when I
enter the drive through BIOS_ all it says is "GRUB".......

ARGHHH
Thanks
P
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Well, GRUB is a bootloader.
Try putting "falkay.net" in Google or another search engine.
 
Anon y mous said:
I found a bunch of temp internet javascripts in my temp directory:

http: / / a . a s - u s . f a l k a g . n e t/

Can't find anything about this on the net- wonder if it had anything to do
with my drive getting fried last night. (lots of read/write errors-) when I
enter the drive through BIOS_ all it says is "GRUB".......
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Sounds like you need to reinstall your chooser. You can access help from
that grub screen iirc.
 
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I found a bunch of temp internet javascripts in my temp directory:

http: / / a . a s - u s . f a l k a g . n e t/

Can't find anything about this on the net- wonder if it had anything to do
with my drive getting fried last night. (lots of read/write errors-) when I
enter the drive through BIOS_ all it says is "GRUB".......
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falkag are an advert-serving business, used by theregister.co.uk for
example. If by "temp directory" you mean the temporary internet files, this
is expected behaviour and should not be considered unusual unless your
anti-virus says otherwise :-)

I would expect the JavaScript files are part of how a web site/banner ad
chooses which advert to show etc.


Adam.


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On that special day, Adam Piggott,
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falkag are an advert-serving business, used by theregister.co.uk for
example.
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And their record re safety isn't the best one, see
http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/11/21/2247232.shtml?tid=220&tid=113&tid=172
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It turned out, a loadbalancer of Falk had been hacked to include more
"ad servers" than there were within the Falk company. The additional
one was the source of the BOFRA attacks.

http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/falkag-net.htm

Tells another not so pleasant story about them...


Gabriele Neukam

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Gabriele said:
On that special day, Adam Piggott,
([email protected]) said...




And their record re safety isn't the best one, see




It turned out, a loadbalancer of Falk had been hacked to include more
"ad servers" than there were within the Falk company. The additional
one was the source of the BOFRA attacks.
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Quite, hence my use of Privoxy, to stop that and many other annoyances and
dangerous things:

http://www.privoxy.org

It's only a matter of time before more ad-serving sites like Falk AG get
hacked to help infect the masses, it makes sense.

Adam.


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Anon y mous said:
??? Confused.....
Thx
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Boot with your Linux boot disk and consult the documentation (info grub)
to see how to reinstall the grub bootloader to the harddrive.
 
Ahh,
I'm win xp, not Linux. Perhaps that is my root problem- Winders...
<G>
Thanks
Paul
 
Anon y mous said:
Ahh,
I'm win xp, not Linux. Perhaps that is my root problem- Winders...
<G>
Thanks
Paul
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AFAIK 'GRUB' is a bootloader for multiboot systems (GRand Unified
Bootloader) and doesn't come with Windows.

Maybe you're infected with Linux. :))
 
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