spam-ish puzzle

[Ian Stephen]

Hi gurus

Here's a puzzle (at least it puzzled me).

I got a junk html email that didn't render correctly in Evolution. 
Looking at the email source I found "To be removed please click here"
that linked to (don't click this yet if ever)
www.market-the-web.com/remove 

I typed that url into Mozilla and a page appeared with a single form
field and a 'remove me' button.

I left-clicked in the field, nothing seemed to happen (no cursor
visible) so I double-clicked in the field.

When I double-clicked, my daughter's hotmail address appeared in the
field!

One cannot type into the field apparently.

Subsequent double-clicks have no effect.

Right-click results in an alert "This page has been protected.  Preview
Only"

Middle-click inserts the last thing I copied or cut at the point where
the mouse is (ie with daughter's email in field, inserts contents of
clipboard in middle of email address).

Looking at the source using "View" > "Page Source" in Moz, the page
seems to be javascript generated, but the scripting is beyond me to
decipher without some Googling and experimentation.  I closed my browser
to (hopefully) prevent anything being sent to the evil forces behind
this web page.

The really wierd thing is that My daughter never uses Linux, the machine
is dual boot and she uses Windows 98.  Root and I are the only users on
Linux (Red Hat 8)

It is possible that sometime when I was logged-on, but away from my desk
she may have used Mozilla to check her hotmail.  My Mozilla does not
have the email component, browser only, and Moz Form Manager is set not
to save data from web pages.

How did my daughter's email address appear in this form?

The answer to this question along with photo and proof of immense wealth
may be rewarded with the daughter's email address.  Maybe.

The above plus proof of putting a script in that form that blows-up
whoever is behind the offending web page might be rewarded with the 2nd
daughter's email address too.

Regards,
Ian Stephen


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