v5.js - what the hell is that?!

Involved Joined: Dec 28, 2003 Posts: 276 Location: Israel

It's been some time i've seen a script running on my site which originate from: http://secure-uk.imrworldwide.com

Now that I've moved to use Mozilla I could even get the full address of the script, using AdBlock. It's http://secure-uk.imrworldwide.com/v5.js . Here's its screen capture:

Could you guy please identify if that's a legit script? Anyway, would appreciate knowing what it does and which of phpnuke's modules/blocks use it. I've tried viewing my index.php source code and couldn't find a trace of it there, yet AdBlock insist to show it there..

Could anyone shade some light on the issue please (googling didn't help) ?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Actually, Googling reveals quite a lot if you follow the yellow brick road Wink

Eventually, v5.js led to RedSheriff Customer Intelligence - V5 which led to http://www.evolt.org/article/Poodle_Predictor_See_your_site_like_Google_does/12/55157/ and ultimatelty to http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go . As to how/why you're seeing it, don't know.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 8:02 am

Apparently I'm still not following the yellow brick road. Sad

Couldn't see the corolation between POODLE and REDSHERIFF.

Would you be so kind to enlight me?
At the buttom line - is that script harmfull by any way?!

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:36 pm

It doesn't look harmful to me. It's just a part of their technology afaict.

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:15 am

Raven wrote:

It doesn't look harmful to me. It's just a part of their technology afaict.

Thanks. I'll overlook it, though I have no idea where it comes from!

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:25 am

Ok, some of the mystery is solved.
The script is being called from an RSS block I have on my site, showing news headlines from a news site. if someone is interested to check it - http://www.israelnationalnews.com .

I'm now more certain it's some kind of rating/statistics script.