
Here's an example of an unexpected and mysterious redirect from the Ubuntu forum. The redirected page reads simply "I am alive", apparently the result of a router DNS hijack.
Is it a joke? Perhaps not. Could it possibly be the result of an error on the cyber villains' proxy server, which sits between you and the web site you intended to visit- "I am alive" is a message sent between routers on a network. My best guess is that the victim was never intended to see this message and has received an internal network message in place of a phoney web page.
The moral of the story is: when investigating possible browser redirects, don't neglect to check the router, and all other computers on the network.
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