Crazy Browser 1.0.5 plugged into Google Toolbar...

also gives a redirect to a completely different site? Hijacking?

[pendanticist]

Greetings,

A new browser has hit my log files, so I go to Google Toolbar and paste it in to learn more about it.

Much to my surprise, when I clicked onto the first result (crazybrowser.com) a new window opened in addition to being taken to crazybrowser. This one (Power IE) was obviously a competitor.

Since I've not seen this kind of activity before, I thought I'd ask. Is this normal, or has someone figured out how to hijack traffic from Google?

All one has to do is paste in "Crazy Browser 1.0.5" to the Toolbar and you should be able to see what I saw.

Anyone?

Pendanticist.

[Marcia]

pedanticist, you may have picked up some parasitic scumware on your computer. It wouldn't be a bad idea to run a check on it, I had a lot I wasn't aware of:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[pendanticist]

Marcia,

Are you saying you've not been able to replicate?

I run adaware as a matter of course, and I've subsequently plugged over a dozen other queries into Google Toolbar. None have produced similar results. All appears to be normal with respect to Toolbar.

<scratching head>

Thanks.

Pendanticist.

[Marcia]

Yep, a second window pops up. But it's when clicking on their page, so I don't think it has anything to do with the toolbar.

[pendanticist]

Thanks again Marcia,

Yep, a second window pops up. But it's when clicking on their page, so I don't think it has anything to do with the toolbar.

Me either. Then again, this post wasn't posted to this category by me, it was moved here.

The bulk of my query regards 'hijacking'.

Since I've not seen this kind of activity before, I thought I'd ask. Is this normal, or has someone figured out how to hijack traffic from Google?

Sure is an odd one, no doubt.

At any rate, the question still stands.

Pendanticist.

[Dave2]

Looking in the source of the site there is popup code; at least I get this:

<!--
Script removed by BFilter (jsengine -> popup)
-->

which is where my proxy removed it..

[pendanticist]

Thanks Dave2,

I too see it at the bottom of the coding. Each time I refreshed the crazybrowser page it redirects to the other one.

Crazy is free, yet the referred costs money. Hmmmmmm....

Sometimes there is a very fine line between popups and redirects.

<ammended>
Wait a minute. A simple redirect allows for the back button to function. Such is not the case here since it opens a distincly new browser. So, unless I'm getting daft in the cranium, the site touting how it can eliminate popups is itself guilty of imposing them. Seems inherantly bogus to me.
</ammended>

Pendanticist.

[cwebb]

I use the crazy browser, it's basically a skin for MSIE, has tabs instead of separate windows, a popup filter, a better bookmark system (open several sites at start or with a single click)

I like it very much but it wasn't me visiting your site, sorry ;)