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eBay scripting trick used to boost seller ratings

Anonymous Coward

nice screenshot...damn compulsory titles 

nice screenshot...

Anonymous Coward

Better to say... 

ASPX is a method to do remote processing of and responding to web browser requests.

Repo

I'm surprised 

That eBay did anything at all given their recent round of "improvements" which made life for the con-artist even easier.

Karim Bourouba

ASPX is... 

not just an HTML file format to create webforms.

Instead, how about using the words, "part of a web application framework"?

dave

Not 1 but 2 tool bars! 

Paris Hilton

Le Reg are supposed to be experts in IT yet the screenshot is taken with not 1 but 2 web toolbars, here's guessing that the 75% complete download for a screensaver pack was just out of shot!

Paris, does she work at the register now?

Graham Cluley

More nice screenshots 

Black Helicopters

If you liked The Reg's screenshots of this incident you can check out more on the Sophos blog here: http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/03/1199.html

(no toolbars present :) ) We also show some evidence that this isn't the first time the bad guys have tried this kind of scam.

Graham Cluley, Sophos

Anonymous Coward

Who says... 

IT Angle

...the screenshot was from a Reg Hacks computer?

Snert Lee

Re: Toolbars 

The screenshot also shows Wikipedia as the default search engine in the widget to the right of the address bar.

Demian Phillips

@snert lee 

Joke

That just means it's Andrews desktop. You have got to keep up with the enemy and know what they are about.

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