OT RE: [cobalt-users] Ezula POSSIBLE PROBLEM WITH SOLUTION

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I was reading the webmaster's script for detecting this, and also
> was reading WhirlyWiryWeb.com on the matter.  In some of the
> discussions I have read. (gethigh forums?) I came across
> something that mentioned that it refreshes the page once as part
> of the detection process.
>
> I have a advertising contract with Burstmedia and I make a good
> portion of my income from them.  I was reading their forums last
> night and I saw where two of the webmasters got WACKED from their
> system because a page with the banner on it had a refresh.  It
> was only a one time refresh according to one webmaster, that was
> used to cache-bust the page since it was updated daily.  Never
> the less, he got wack as that is a cardinal SIN with advertisers.
>
> Does this fix for Ezula and toptext in ANY WAY shape or form
> reload the page? If so it can cause some serious peril for
> webmasters with advertising contracts!
>

I used the WhirlyWiryWeb.com script to simply display a warning message on
my site and a link to another page, again within my site. I'm not sure why
anyone would want to automatically divert people away from their own site
when they could easily provide the exact same information and keep the
visitor on their site providing the exact same "service" to them. Just
because they may have innocently installed this doesn't mean I don't want
their business at all and would prevent them from surfing my site. I'm sure
if Netscape came out with this plugin and it only worked on text on MS
sites, a lot of these same people would be saying "Right on!"

 I liken it to someone at Wal-Mart finding out that a certain brand of shoe
detects when you try to walk into Wal-Mart and alerts you that you might get
a better deal at K-Mart and stops those people from coming into their store.

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Dan Kriwitsky