This vaguely reminds me of that (was it Internet Explorer?) plugin/extension that tried to detect phishing sites by prefetching all the links on a page. There was a big uproar with admins and there was an apache rewrite rule floating around to detect the user-agent and block these requests.
I can't remember the name of this, though, so I'm having trouble searching for it. Maybe 2006 or 2007 was the time?
You're sure you're not thinking of Google's Web Accelerator? It wasn't made to prevent phishing, but to speed up browsing, but it caused the problems you describe.
I am sure I am not thinking of GWA. I want to say it was installed somewhat implicitly as part of some virus checking software that people didn't really ask for.
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This vaguely reminds me of that (was it Internet Explorer?) plugin/extension that tried to detect phishing sites by prefetching all the links on a page. There was a big uproar with admins and there was an apache rewrite rule floating around to detect the user-agent and block these requests.
I can't remember the name of this, though, so I'm having trouble searching for it. Maybe 2006 or 2007 was the time?
You're sure you're not thinking of Google's Web Accelerator? It wasn't made to prevent phishing, but to speed up browsing, but it caused the problems you describe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator
I am sure I am not thinking of GWA. I want to say it was installed somewhat implicitly as part of some virus checking software that people didn't really ask for.
This was AVG antivirus link checker
Ah, that it was, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_(software)#Concerns