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Offline BillseyTopic starter

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Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« on: September 07, 2003, 03:27:38 AM »
...or sold off to some loser? I won't provide a link, as I don't want to have people pissed off when they click it. I did find that us.aminet.net still works as expected.

All I'm going to say here is that when I typed the www one in last (this very evening) I didn't get what I expected, and there were lots of pop-up windows.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2003, 03:53:39 AM »
Worked fine for me just now.
Using IBrowse 2.3.
No pop-ups.  Huh?
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2003, 03:55:52 AM »
@Billsey, www.aminet.net seems fine from my end also, no popups and nothing to get pissed about. Maybe your browser/systems been hijacked ?
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2003, 04:04:29 AM »
I get forwarded to here.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2003, 04:10:44 AM »
Hmm... Very strange, :-? Doesn't do that to me from here. Maybe some kinda bug in your browser ? I don't know whats up with that , I hope that someone can help you sort it out though.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2003, 04:10:46 AM »
gotta love forced popups in mass numbers
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2003, 04:23:13 AM »
aminet.net works fine for me. aminet.org is trash.
I'm using opera brower with popups blocked so I didn't see the rest of the trash you mentioned when I went to aminet.org, just the main ad page.

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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2003, 04:48:23 AM »
@Billsey

www.aminet.net works fine for me, as well.  Perhaps your ISP is having DNS probs?
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2003, 12:44:01 PM »
OK,

Additional testing puts it down to Safari, the browser for OSX, because Internet Explorer5 and Netscape Navigator4.7 don't do it here either.
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2003, 12:58:56 PM »
It's aminet.net not  aminet.org :-)
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2003, 01:08:13 PM »
Hi Billsey, I'm glad to hear its nothing major, still it's kinda strange why it would do that. :-?
At least now you can get to Aminet !

I guess you could try to report it to the Safari people and see if they maybe know whats up with it ? but you know how it is tryin to get real answers from some outfits. :-?

Anyways... Happy Surfing !  :-)
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2003, 01:12:04 PM »
Hi tintin, Ya we know, he was typing .net in his browser but it would send him to .org . Its something to do with his browser.

Cheers :-)
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2003, 01:18:26 PM »
I got to a feedback page and entered the following post to them:

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After testing with Safari, Internet Explorer5, and Netscape Communicator4.7, I have concluded that there is some kind of bug in Safari 1.0.

Whenever I try to go to www.aminet.net with Safari, I get redirected to www.aminet.org instead. The two sites are completely different than each other, and Explorer and Navigator do not behave in this manner when going to this website, www.aminet.net.

Other users have also tried going to www.aminet.net and they have not been redirected either.

I am using Safari 1.0 on OSX 10.2.6; Mac G4 at 400MHz with 576 megabytes of RAM.


Then got a noticed about how support feedback should be sent to their support forums, which then got me into a tangled web of trying to log in to that. I never did figure out my ID and password to do that.  :-x
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2003, 01:27:35 PM »
Okay, just making sure it wasn't some simple typing mistake 8-)
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Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2003, 01:33:28 PM »
@ Billsey

Ya , some companys make it so fun when trying to deal with them , its like they think if they make it hard enough most people won't even bother.

I'd say don't give up just yet and try a bit more before you give up in desperation. Then if you do get some kind of explaination at least you'll know whats up with it.

Chow fer now T.  :-)
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