Thursday, April 28, 2005

Funwebproducts JUNK

I am an admin of a Domino site. Today one of our users was having trouble uploading to our site. Since the other users were not, I delved into the logs and this is what I found as their user agent,

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; FunWebProducts)

A quick google and the first real article (not from the company) is from Network World from 2003 that basically says this thing is giving webmasters fits. A few more googles, some webmasters have created special 'go away' pages just for those so infected. More googling and I find a recent post, same problem for webmasters.

Now I only play a webmaster, being one of those jack of all trades types, masters of none. So I'll have to create some special code (a weak area mind you) to sniff this out of their agent string just so I can post a web page like this one:

http://www.beefstew.net/FunWebProducts.html

Which I saw somewhere else as well. Seems like a standard design, I may use it as well.

This user appears to have been using a computer that is not necessarily shared as I later found out after talking to him. He seemed to be in quite a hurry once I mentioned the 'products' associated with this beast, and reading some quick lines from the Network World article to him. I'm seriously thinking of opening a trouble call for his machine to have it cleaned, since another google post suggested that this stuff can read what would ordinarily be secure pages - which our site is comprised of. I think I'll run this by our internal lan support guys first and see what they want to do. After all I would be telling on one of our customer's users....

Hey, I'm getting over a cold, and I'm a wimp with these things. Not very nice today... :(
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