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Attempted download

Added by Raven Nine about 5 years ago

Hi, do you have any idea what this is? I have noticed a similar thing several times on different websites. This site is http://www.newsfocus.org/crowley.htm Privacy Browser pops up a dialogue to save a file named -ud56bs5Knk I cancel it and it prompts to save a second file named Gy7FXVERKFE. Niether file has any file extension. Do you think this this sone kind of hacking attempt?

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Screenshot_20190210-101408-01.jpeg (51.2 KB) Screenshot_20190210-101408-01.jpeg -ud56bs5Knk
Screenshot_20190210-101559-01.jpeg (55.9 KB) Screenshot_20190210-101559-01.jpeg Gy7FVXERKFE

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YouTube NoCookie - Added by Soren Stoutner about 5 years ago

This website makes two requests to YouTube NoCookie.

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/-ud56bs5Knk?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0&showinfo=0

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Gy7FVXERKFE?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0&showinfo=0

These are to display videos at the bottom of the website. For some reason, WebView is interpreting these requests as downloads. The names of the two files come from the URLs. I don't know why WebView gets confused about this. Chrome handles them just fine. Perhaps it will be fixed in a future WebView update.

Attached is a screenshot of one of the requests.

YouTube NoCookie request.png (172 KB) YouTube NoCookie request.png

RE: Attempted download - Added by Soren Stoutner about 5 years ago

Two other browsers based on WebView, Lightning and FOSS Browser, also attempt to download these as files.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.baumann.browser/

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