Where are you going?

UH!OpenRedirect!Plain

  29 April 2008

Description

Using an open redirect to hide an URL. See also Are you feeling lucky, Sergey?

Example

http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=PQwNRM&num=29353
&adurl=http://www.spamsite.com/

http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=DirEZ;~sscs=%3fhttp://www.spamsite.com/

Poll

How should software and OS patching/security updates be managed?
Manually, at the user's discretion
Automatically via an optional, user-defined schedule
Automatically via a fixed, but optional schedule
Automatically via a fixed schedule, on by default with opt-out system
Automatically and silently, with no option to run unpatched

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