[LINK] Red Sheriff and Vic Gov [was MMV - Equivalent in oth er states?]

[Daniel Rose]

http://cexx.org/sheriff.htm

According to the page info it was last modified over a year ago, so Bigpond
have been using RS for a while now -- I suppose for their ISP customer's
home pages...

Known (former/current) users of Sheriff:
www.ninemsn.com.au
Bigpond/Telstra Internet Services
Peakhour (http://www.peakhour.com.au/, http://www.peakhour.net.au/
http://www.peakhour.com/)
BBC.co.uk


A more detailed write up is at
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76, you scroll down or
CTRL-F for red sherrif.

I personally would block this and many other places in a hosts file for any
home or SME site I might look after.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha at juggernaut.com.au] 
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:11 PM
>To: Link at anu.edu.au
>Subject: Re: [LINK] Red Sheriff and Vic Gov [was MMV - 
>Equivalent in other states?]
>
>
>Interesting... within the last week or two some links within 
>the Telstra
>web site have been replaced with a redirection through the imrworldwide
>server. For example, the Broadband links from the home page redirect
>through imrworldwide.
>
>This is far more intrusive than the nasty little bugs they used to use
>because now if I want to access the Telstra site I have to enable
>access to the spyware server. Or connect through an anonymizer or an
>open proxy.
>
> ...R.
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