self/auto refreshing pages

First time I've seen this sort of thing was last week.
I just started using FF(1.06) with "noscript" recently and have been quite happy with it.

So what's happenniing is web pages are auto refreshing, as an example a went to http://www.cbc.ca this morning, and while in another tab noticed that page refresh. Now the address bar contains this http://www.cbc.ca/?refresh.

is there something I can use to stop this? It seems another intrusive abuse employing whatever (ready to be exploited) means. If the site is initiating a reload, what's to stop it from loading some other page? Is this being done with the HTML of the page?

EDIT:
yup, and this page is doing it http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/, what a pita (no "refresh" in the address bar)
Lord, they just won't let me get by without becoming fluent in code, will they.
So long as this isn't a hijack then another pita is all it is.

 

bumpity bump

nobody? just a confirmation that this is a "feature" would be appreciated
btw, I haven't set noscript to allow the site

tia

 

Will have to do that, and once I do I'll let you know if the problem persists
on a related note, any rootkit detection that works with 98se? (re98: I know, I have my reasons)

 

It's this http meta in the head:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600; url=/?refresh" />

It's not a javascript, so disabling javascript won't do anything. It's a little annoying, but nothing to be worried about at all. Quite a few news sites use it.

Look here http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html for some explanation.

 

I think the proxomitron can stop it, but i can't check that because i'm not on XP right now.

Lamehand

 

"It's this http meta in the head"

I was afraid of that. I'd rather it were a virus or such, less pervasive a problem. hehe
As it is I consider it malware/hijack. Not to mention a pita!-"hey! I was in the middle of reading that!"

Thanks for info and links.

@ronjor If you do find a rootkit detcetion post the linky! same from me

Thanks all.

 

Uh well, save it and simply delete that line to read it offline.