[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

[Scott Chilcote]

Interesting...

OpenDNS.org looks like a benign alternative, but it does its own typo 
hijack.  They go to http://ash.guide.opendns.com/?url=google.cokm 
instead (google.cokm is one of my favorite typos).

I use four machines at home and a notebook when I travel, so setting up 
a local caching DNS would be a lot of solution for a little problem.

Perhaps this is the excuse I need to get a broadband router that will 
let me replace the firmware.

Thanks for the help Dave, Sean, Steve.

--
Scott C.


Sean Myers wrote:
> OpenDNS.org is such a service.
> 
> -- 
> Sean Myers
> System Administrator
> American Research Institute
> (919) 228-4961
> 
> 
> Dave Sorenson wrote:
>> Earthlink has set their DNS to return the squatter page to unknown 
>> requests like verisign tried to do last year. It breaks a lot of 
>> anti-spam stuff as a side "benefit" too.
>>
>> I'd try changing who you are using for DNS lookups. I have a meeting 
>> to go sleep through or I'd apply Goggle-fu, but I seem to recall 
>> alternative DNS services having been discussed here before. You might 
>> try a search on the archive.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Scott Chilcote wrote:
>>> J.C. Jones wrote:
>>>> What browser are you using?
>>>>
>>>> jcj
>>>
>>> Usually Firefox.
>>>
>>> The same thing happens in IE6, Konqueror, Mozilla, lynx, and links on 
>>> various Linux and Windows op systems though.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Scott C.