New Router, ABE Issues

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New Router, ABE Issues

Post by Underleft »

Just got a new router installed, and now I keep getting ABE messages popping up everywhere.
Here's an example of one I get from Wikipedia.

Request {GET http://telus.home/?org_url=en.wikipedia.org <<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, chrome://browser/content/browser.xul, chrome://browser/content/browser.xul} filtered by ABE: <LOCAL> Deny

Any help is great, I've manged to add a few basic exceptions to get most sites working, eg:
# Google exception
Site 127.0.0.1
Accept from *.google.com

But I just can't seem to get some of them working right. Thanks in advance.
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Re: New Router, ABE Issues

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Is Telus your ISP?
Is Telus a satellite service?

What version of NoScript are you running?
Do you have an extensive HOSTS file?

What "security" software are you running?
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Re: New Router, ABE Issues

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Yes, Telus is my ISP, and no they are not a satellite service. Just a standard DSL.

Running version 1.9.9.14 of NoScript.

There are quite a few things in my HOSTS file, stuff added by Spybot S&D.
As for security software.. obviously Spybot S&D, Avira AV and Malwarebytes.
I have a hardware firewall.
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Re: New Router, ABE Issues

Post by Giorgio Maone »

ABE is telling you that the Wikipedia page (in this case) is spawning a request to your router.
The only reason I can think of is that your router collects information about the sites you visit, I suppose to rate them and/or block the blacklisted ones.
If you're OK with this behavior, you can prepend the following line in the SYSTEM ruleset:

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Site http://telus.home/?org_url=*
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Re: New Router, ABE Issues

Post by GµårÐïåñ »

Wow, talk about unnecessarily intrusive. You might consider disabling that function unless you absolutely want it, because there might more than just YOU accessing that traffic data, anyone who knows you have that router or can sniff it and knows the API for the function can request, collect and access that data too, assuming its not already being shared with the manufacturer behind your back or as part of some fine print or even some other entity. Just saying. ABE may have exposed a vulnerability that were not aware of or a feature that you didn't realize was enabled.
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Re: New Router, ABE Issues

Post by Underleft »

Wow. I'm really shocked at this.
Much love for ABE for finding this out.

It's definitely remaining permanently disabled.
Now to see if I can disable it in the router.

Thank you for finding this out.
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