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Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage

Posted by timothy on from the sorta-clever-but-only-sorta dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscribers' traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup."

2 of 271 comments (clear)

  1. Important Notice! Email Outage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We apologize for the inconvenience. Cox is experiencing a residential email outage in your area.

    If you use Outlook Express or another email client you are able to send email. However, incoming email is not available at this time. Incoming messages are being stored and should be available when service is fully operational.

    Restoring service remains our top priority. Unfortunately, we estimate at this time service may not be restored until tonight. We again apologize for the inconvenience. Please visit cox.com/support for regular updates.

    Thank you,
    Cox Communications

  2. Re:Is this News? by Dachannien · · Score: 0, Redundant

    but I keep hearing about medications that claim to keep your Cox up any time you want it up.

    If your Cox stays up for more than four hours straight, you should seek medical attention. Fortunately, this doesn't happen too often.