Spyware on FreeBSD!?

[Chris Dillon]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Frank Shute wrote:

>
> Bad news, looks like my machine has been infected with some Spyware.
>
> I noticed that on surfing to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ or anything 
> under that domain, I was getting some outgoing activity and Firefox 
> was after a URL (as shown by the status bar) somewhere under the 
> domain:
>
> http://bbcnewscouk.112.2o7.net/
>
> A quick Google on 2o7.net confirmed my worst fears: spyware!

Uh, no.  2o7.net is owned by Omniture, a web analytics company, and is 
used explicitly by the sites you are visiting.  Nothing to do with 
2o7.net is actually installed on your computer.

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