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Netscape.com website hijacked?

Postby Antony » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 6:05 am

I noticed that Netscape.com is hijacked... and got redirected to Digg.com, the website new Netscape.com is based on.

Netscape.com appears to be normal, but not if you click one of their Hot Tags. (e.g. http://www.netscape.com/tag/apple/ )

You can reproduce it yourself.
Just click any of the Hot Tags in Netscape.com webpage
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You will be greeted with following message twice,
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Then, this message,
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Then, this page is being loaded.
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Hope it's being fixed shortly.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
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Postby Ginkan » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 1:22 am

funny....
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060127 Netscape/8.1
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