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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus 2003-09-19

Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday began directing mistyped dot-com and dot-net e-mail and Web addresses to a search site operated by the company and Overture.com, a Pasadena, Calif.-based advertising company that brands itself as a search engine.

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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-23
Anonymous
If you run a Linux system you can block

them by adding:

/sbin/ipchains -I input -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -s 12.158.80.10 -j DENY

/sbin/ipchains -I output -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -d 12.158.80.10 -j DENY

to your firewall chain....

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