{"id":774,"date":"2014-07-29T21:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavtaylor.co.uk\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-07-29T21:09:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:09:28","slug":"malware-warning-showip-addon-for-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/malware-warning-showip-addon-for-firefox","title":{"rendered":"Malware Warning &#8211; ShowIP Addon for Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick FYI for anyone using the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/showip\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShowIP Firefox addon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new version was pushed out yesterday, v2.5, and it injects a request into every page load to a site thats seems to be well known for malware. I highly recommend disabling it or rolling back to v2.4 if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>example request:<\/p>\n<p><code>GET \/coupons\/deals?merchant=www.google.co.uk&referrer=&partner=ksod3 HTTP\/1.1<br \/>\nHost: ads.panoramtech.net<br \/>\nUser-Agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:34.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/34.0<br \/>\nAccept: application\/json, text\/javascript, *\/*; q=0.01<br \/>\nAccept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3<br \/>\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate<br \/>\nDNT: 1<br \/>\nReferer: https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/<br \/>\nOrigin: https:\/\/www.google.co.uk<br \/>\nConnection: keep-alive<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick FYI for anyone using the ShowIP Firefox addon A new version was pushed out yesterday, v2.5, and it injects a request into every page load to a site thats seems to be well known for malware. I highly recommend disabling it or rolling back to v2.4 if you need it. example request: GET \/coupons\/deals?merchant=www.google.co.uk&#038;referrer=&#038;partner=ksod3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"FYI for anyone using the ShowIP addon for @Firefox, v2.5 pushed out yesterday injects a malware tracking request to page loads","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[289,27,22,290],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}