Web hijack riles Belkin router users
Belkin is trying to defuse a potentially embarrassing situation that arose after network administrators learned the company’s routers can periodically hijack users’ Web connection and display an advertisement for parental control software. "Every eight hours, a random computer that’s hooked up to a local area network may receive an unsolicited advertisement for a trial version of parental control software, instead of the Web page the person had hoped to visit."
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