On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:57:38 -0500, MoiMoi <moimoi@example.com> wrote:

>In article <_AYph.396$9B6.108@trnddc07>, DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net
>says...
>> From: <isthismishugas@checkthatsite.org>
>>
>> | A poster on alt.comp.freeware mentioned this site:
>> |
>> | http://redcheek.net/erm/
>> |
>> | When I got there I noticed that a message in the bottom left hand screen of
>> | Firefox stated: "transferring data from 127.0.0.1".
>> |
>> | The page was slow to load and full of question marks on it, along with a
>> | couple of download links.
>> |
>> | Site Advisor gives it a green rating and shows that several media tools on
>> | it appear to be clean.
>> |
>> | I closed the window as soon as I saw the message.
>> |
>> | Perhaps I haven't noticed it on more popular sites before, but how
>> | dangerous is that message (transferring data from 127.0.0.1) which I know
>> | is the local host (in other words - one's one computer).
>>
>> The site is in Chinese. The question marks are replacing Chinese chars. as your display is
>> not showing them so the "?? is being used as a substitute character.
>
>That's not his point.
>In status bar, there is quick notation, "transferring data from
>127.0.0.1", rather than "transferring from (whatever site)".
>I saw it too.
>Odd that once page loaded though, a reload doesn't show that.
>Maybe if I cleared cache.
>I didn't see any kind of script in page source that would do that, so
>it's kind of a mystery, I agree.

I've seen it on my Firefox a number of times, usually when Firefox
stalled briefly when beginning to load a site. I have assumed that it
was being directed to a site blocked in my HOSTS file-all of which
are, of course, redirected to 127.0.0.1.

Dan
>
>MM