I used Adaware but it didn't work. Faireagle is apparently a script that is running in the background that adds a small bit of JavaScript to the html of every page that I visit. I have JavaScript turned off right now.
Solution: I can to my work and I noticed that the ads were gone. The small bit of JavaScript which was being added is no longer there. This is very frustrating to me since I stayed up till 1 o'clock in the morning trying to figure out if I had been infected with a virus. I use "MoonOverAddison" which is a low cost wireless internet service which is low cost for a reason.
Have you considered the possibility that MoonOverAddison is using a transparent proxy to insert the javascript via your browser to feed ads while you browse? That seems quite likely given what you just described.
I noticed this at work and reported it to our IT department who contacted our ISP (Redmoon, who owns MoonOverAddison). Here's what we learned.
Fair Eagle sells a hardware device that sits between the ISP and all customers. It attempts to insert the ad Javascript into all HTTP traffic. Redmoon has purchased this device, intending it for all home customers, however, it lacks any sort of configurability based on IP address so all customers, including business customers leasing T1s from them, are affected.
Redmoon installed this device knowing that the ads would alienate some customers, but not enough to make the device unprofitable.
Wow... that's borderline criminal. Nice terms of service. Maybe we should point Leo in the direction of this device and have him cover it on a TWiT... so we can all get angry together ;)
Redmoon has admitted that all traffic is going through this spam box. Who knows what this thing is doing besides inserting ads into HTTP traffic. It may well be collecting email address, personal information, passwords and any number of other things we'd rather keep private.
If it weren't for the ads (which can be turned on and off with the hardware) we would never have known the IP traffic was being mucked with. I highly recommend that anyone using Redmoon or one of its sister companies use encryption whenever possible. Heck, this is probably a good general rule of thumb to follow...you never know who's watching.
If they are adding it to all HTTP traffic, they are violating copyright in a big way. If they were to add it to my page, or from my employer they would be receiving a letter from lawyers very quickly. Looking at the info posed by chrisr, some content providers sign up for this, so check a company such as www.ibm.com, www.fsf.org that would not sign up for it, and if the adds appear, report them to the web site owners.
Untill it gets sorted out, there an easy solution to this : use the NoScript extension in Firefox. By default it disables all javascript and some other stuff. This prevents not only some of the ad-scripts to run but also any other nasty script there may be.
Some websites still need some scripts to run in order to function so you only need to allow those useful ones, which you can find out by temporarily allowed them to run.
The Adlbock extension also allows blocking javascript but doesn't do so by default, so i prefer to use Noscript for that. However i've been using Adblock Plus lately to block some scripts & frames (on an Ajax website), that neither NoScript nor Remove It Permanently could handle.
RIP is great to remove some stuff you don't want from a webpage, however it only removes them after loading them, while Adblock removes the stuff before it even loads... Adblock Plus also has a handy feature that downloads lists of known ads to discard, so a big part of them are already taken care of once you've enabled one or several of these lists.
So that's the perfect mix for me to eliminate all the bloat the clutters many websites these days, you just need to learn to use each of these extensions at what they're best at.
You might want to add the CookieSafe extension to the mix too, if you care about not allowing too many sites to collect information about your websurfing habits. This extension comes from the same team that made NoScript & works in a similar way, you enable only useful cookies as needed.
Would anyone affected care to visit http://molgaard.org and 1) see if the code is injected and 2) explain to me exactly how, where and why I make the complaint :-)
just set your DNS to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (in either your router or your computer) and you can block any domain, porn, etc from your entire network
you can also set up shortcuts, for example "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" allows me to enter "g paris hilton" in the address bar, which will search google for "paris hilton".
it also speeds up page load, since it resolves much faster then ISP DNS.
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Have you tried Spybot S&D or Adaware by Lavasoft? They're both shareware apps.
2 years ago by fsulawyer
Haven't heard of that one. I assume it's infected a Windows PC? fsulawyer's recommendations on apps to try are good ones.
2 years ago by Vermyndax
I used Adaware but it didn't work. Faireagle is apparently a script that is running in the background that adds a small bit of JavaScript to the html of every page that I visit. I have JavaScript turned off right now.
2 years ago by mediamisfit
Solution: I can to my work and I noticed that the ads were gone. The small bit of JavaScript which was being added is no longer there. This is very frustrating to me since I stayed up till 1 o'clock in the morning trying to figure out if I had been infected with a virus. I use "MoonOverAddison" which is a low cost wireless internet service which is low cost for a reason.
2 years ago by mediamisfit
Have you considered the possibility that MoonOverAddison is using a transparent proxy to insert the javascript via your browser to feed ads while you browse? That seems quite likely given what you just described.
2 years ago by Vermyndax
I'm contacting them now and going to find out. I pretty sure they are.
2 years ago by mediamisfit
I noticed this at work and reported it to our IT department who contacted our ISP (Redmoon, who owns MoonOverAddison). Here's what we learned.
Fair Eagle sells a hardware device that sits between the ISP and all customers. It attempts to insert the ad Javascript into all HTTP traffic. Redmoon has purchased this device, intending it for all home customers, however, it lacks any sort of configurability based on IP address so all customers, including business customers leasing T1s from them, are affected.
Redmoon installed this device knowing that the ads would alienate some customers, but not enough to make the device unprofitable.
Very shady.
2 years ago by chrisr
Forgive the sensationalist title; I didn't create it:
http://www.digg.com/technews/ISPsbeingcompromisedorjustbeingcheapIstheInternet_doomed
2 years ago by chrisr
Wow... that's borderline criminal. Nice terms of service. Maybe we should point Leo in the direction of this device and have him cover it on a TWiT... so we can all get angry together ;)
2 years ago by Vermyndax
Redmoon has admitted that all traffic is going through this spam box. Who knows what this thing is doing besides inserting ads into HTTP traffic. It may well be collecting email address, personal information, passwords and any number of other things we'd rather keep private.
If it weren't for the ads (which can be turned on and off with the hardware) we would never have known the IP traffic was being mucked with. I highly recommend that anyone using Redmoon or one of its sister companies use encryption whenever possible. Heck, this is probably a good general rule of thumb to follow...you never know who's watching.
2 years ago by chrisr
Found the company that makes the appliance. Here's a link to the information page.
http://www.nebuad.com/providers/providers.php
2 years ago by chrisr
Thanks for all the info chris. Your awesome!
2 years ago by mediamisfit
If they are adding it to all HTTP traffic, they are violating copyright in a big way. If they were to add it to my page, or from my employer they would be receiving a letter from lawyers very quickly. Looking at the info posed by chrisr, some content providers sign up for this, so check a company such as www.ibm.com, www.fsf.org that would not sign up for it, and if the adds appear, report them to the web site owners.
2 years ago by codegen
Untill it gets sorted out, there an easy solution to this : use the NoScript extension in Firefox. By default it disables all javascript and some other stuff. This prevents not only some of the ad-scripts to run but also any other nasty script there may be. Some websites still need some scripts to run in order to function so you only need to allow those useful ones, which you can find out by temporarily allowed them to run.
The Adlbock extension also allows blocking javascript but doesn't do so by default, so i prefer to use Noscript for that. However i've been using Adblock Plus lately to block some scripts & frames (on an Ajax website), that neither NoScript nor Remove It Permanently could handle.
RIP is great to remove some stuff you don't want from a webpage, however it only removes them after loading them, while Adblock removes the stuff before it even loads... Adblock Plus also has a handy feature that downloads lists of known ads to discard, so a big part of them are already taken care of once you've enabled one or several of these lists.
So that's the perfect mix for me to eliminate all the bloat the clutters many websites these days, you just need to learn to use each of these extensions at what they're best at.
You might want to add the CookieSafe extension to the mix too, if you care about not allowing too many sites to collect information about your websurfing habits. This extension comes from the same team that made NoScript & works in a similar way, you enable only useful cookies as needed.
2 years ago by ShakaZ
Would anyone affected care to visit http://molgaard.org and 1) see if the code is injected and 2) explain to me exactly how, where and why I make the complaint :-)
2 years ago by Fjodor
Ugh. As if we weren't being served with enough advertising content already.
2 years ago by subwolf
Get and install privoxy
it eliminate all ads that you do not like. I filter everything from doubleclick and it speed up web page load time by at least 50%.
I've been using it for years without a hitch.
very easy to install, very easy to control.
-avi
2 years ago by aviram
Oh, another thing I also use is OpenDNS
just set your DNS to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (in either your router or your computer) and you can block any domain, porn, etc from your entire network
you can also set up shortcuts, for example "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" allows me to enter "g paris hilton" in the address bar, which will search google for "paris hilton".
it also speeds up page load, since it resolves much faster then ISP DNS.
-avi
2 years ago by aviram