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Offline polonus

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WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« on: July 22, 2012, 07:02:43 PM »
Get an alert when going here: http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download&f=Partial

WebKnight Application Firewall Alert
Your request triggered an alert! If you feel that you have received this page in error, please contact the administrator of this web site.

Why?

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« Last Edit: July 22, 2012, 07:12:45 PM by polonus »
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Re: WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2012, 07:12:16 PM »
No alert from my end but I am using IE
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Re: WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2012, 07:18:01 PM »
Hi essexboy,

Yep, it is browser specific. No alert going there with IE, no alert going there with fx, so it is google chrome related and possibly via the workings of one of the extensions I have installed there. That gives me less to worry then,

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Re: WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2012, 07:25:19 PM »
Hi essexboy,

Funny, my good friend, going there from the link in the former posting using GoogleChrome does not give any hick-up, no alert..
I think it is the webmaster old school doing. Some have similar issues in other browsers for this site: http://www.cyclestore.co.uk/
It is related to a registry key for User Agent Switcher: Chrome UA spoofer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings \ User Agent \ etc.

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Re: WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2012, 07:57:29 PM »
Hi Polonus,

With sniffer I get the same-looking return.
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Re: WebKnight Application Firewall Alert trying to go to site...
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2012, 09:06:45 PM »
What users should do is cleanse the browser cache and reboot,

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