You need to update the router firmware (dated 11/17/03 or later) to turn
off the spam. Do a Google search on Belkin routers spam for the sorry story.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Roberts - SOTL" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>; "SCADA Mailing List"
<scada@lists.iinet.net.au>; <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:47 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Router spam
> Hi All
>
> For a week or so now I have been starting up my laptop in the office and
> receiving a immediate pop-up spam add.
>
> Havinf all filters turned on including security, popups and cookies I was
> going nuts trying to figure out how I had became infected with a url
transfer
> spam program in my Linux box.
>
> Thanks to a posting on another list I was able to ascertain that what is
> happening is that a router company has initiated an add campain of popups
> through their routers.
> The URL that always appears is:
>
http://filter.belkin.com/setup.asp?SN=BEL13KK0&RP=21456&IP=192.168.0.2&FV=2.00.04
>
> which is a Belkin Router add.
>
> The following story explains the situation:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205&tid=153
>
> My solution to this issue is to post notices on all know BB that if you
buy
> Belkin products expects spam from Belkin.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
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