| reply to MJimLay
Re: Email Notice Popups in Browser I'm also perturbed by this. I'm using OpenDNS and Level 3 DNS and still saw the pop up. Call it paranoia, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're tracking everything we do online. |
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| reply to amok
I believe it modem based, but I'd like to hear if someone with just another 3rd party modem has been facing these issues.
But man my trust in Cox has diminished quite a bit, a popup isn't so bad its how they did it is the kicker. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | There is a service in windows that allows popups to just come up.. perhaps cox is taking advantage of that, what's next, advertisements on cox media?
-Rob |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | From the Cox Comm FB page:
»tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/15···=twitter
An anonymous reader writes "Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscriber's traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup."
-Rob |
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Beezel
join:2008-12-15
Las Vegas, NV | reply to the dude
said by the dude:I believe it modem based, but I'd like to hear if someone with just another 3rd party modem has been facing these issues.
But man my trust in Cox has diminished quite a bit, a popup isn't so bad its how they did it is the kicker.
I use a Cisco DPQ3212 supplied by Cox and using OpenDns and Level 3 DNS as backup. I use Waterfox browser which is Firefox in 64 bit. and I have never had one of these popups. When I use regular Firefox I don't see it in it either. Must be from the security settings people set in their browsers. |
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 chip89
join:2012-07-05
Independence, OH | reply to m8trix
It even showed up on my iPhone on Wi Fi. |
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nmlobo
join:2002-11-02
Yorktown, VA | reply to Beezel
I agree. It must be a browser setting that is allowing the message. I have a Moto 6120, IE9, and Cox DNS. I have not seen a single pop-up message. |
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| reply to toy4x4
Multiple devices here, Windows 7, IE 9, and even an iPad that a guest of mine is using, and we haven't seen this popup. I have a Motorola Surfboard SB6120. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | Scroll up guys and read the news article I found
-Rob |
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| said by Rob_:Scroll up guys and read the news article I found
-Rob
Yeah, was reading from this early this morn.
VERY interesting but concerning information. |
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| reply to toy4x4
I began getting this pop-up as well.
Do do not feel comfortable with this. This means cox can inject/filter contents if they wanted.
Korean ISPs in Korea is doming similar thing. It is not to display pop-up, but to detect people using router.
In Korea, ISPs are restricting use of router saying you only signed up for 1 computer and have to pay more to use 2 or more computers.
To determine use of multiple computers, they are injecting script into website customers are accessing.
COX will be able to do more than just displaying pop-up by injecting script.
Am I just paranoid? |
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| reply to toy4x4
I believe Cox is using software from a company called Frontporch. They sell in-browser notification software. You can find a link to them with a Google search, they have their company name as a simple dot-com address (as a newer poster, I will refrain from posting links for now).
Looking over slashdot, Frontporch and some other research, as well as recalling my conversations with some Cox reps, I believe Cox used this as a test of what will basically be an inline advertising system. Next up come more service messages, after that comes the ads. |
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| iptables -I FORWARD -s 184.176.0.0/12 -j DROP
I plugged this into my DD-WRT router because I was tired of seeing it and so was my wife. When you should get a popup it takes the browser a bit to timeout (3-5 seconds for me using chrome) trying to get the JS they are loading but then it works fine.
I still think this is a joke and when I tried to call yesterday to get information from Cox I couldn't get through to their technical services team. Cute. (I have them on speed dial) |
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| reply to toy4x4
I haven't gotten any pop ups at all. Weird. |
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| reply to toy4x4
Have not seen it here.
Moto 6121 modem
Win7 systems with IE, Waterfox, and Firefox spread across them.
I however do NOT use Cox email, never have, I wonder if they are able to see who accesses their POP servers and filter it to those users only? |
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| Well if they are filtering it only to people who use Cox email they failed with me. I haven't seen any popups and all I use is Cox email. |
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| reply to Brybry
said by Brybry:Cox appears to inject a script into the head of any page (on a timer?) that creates a div/iframe with a 'popup' notification with no way to opt-out.
<IMG SRC="">
How did you find the above script (it's not in the page source of the webpage they hijacked on my machine)? A much larger amount of javascript was loaded from another directory, as well (and, in my case, everything came from 184.178.98.52). |
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| reply to mclasser
said by mclasser: I wouldn't be surprised if they're tracking everything we do online.
On its face, this intrusion didn't involve tracking, but you can be 100% sure that EVERY ISP tracks and records every bit of user activity (easily done, since all internet traffic goes through them).
But, FWIW, the biggest problem with ISP code-injection exploits isn't the stuff they send TO you - that's merely an annoyance, it's what they potentially can get FROM you that should be of concern*.
* those who've installed any ISP programs on their machines needn't be concerned by this, since they've already given the ISP the potential to access to everything on their machines. |
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| reply to toy4x4
I haven't received any inline popups from cox.. |
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kxrm
join:2002-07-18
Fort Worth, TX | It's not really that surprising, the commercial side has been able to inject and filter as they please for business use for the last few years. |
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