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Diablo-X
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Post subject: OpenDNS in Firefox annoyance. (Fixed)  Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:39 am |
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This is sorted now btw.
Ok so as of the past week, everytime I type something into my address bar, e.g 'photobucket', instead of it taking me straight there, it now brings me to some other websearch website called OpenDNS.
Pretty sure it's spyware or something but just wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of it easily?
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Last edited by Diablo-X on Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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[QBS]Dr.Strangelove
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:58 am |
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did you type photobucket then hit Ctrl & enter?
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having just tried myself, just by typing photobucket it went straight to the website, so yes you have gremlins eating your cookies 
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happyslappy
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Post subject: well Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:08 am |
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you have added opendns dns servers ( nout up with that )
but typing in
photobucket in as the url is not good tbh
if your browser took you to photobucket.com when you did that its probably google toolbar filling in the rest ( spyware by some standards )
now - opendns does the correct thing imo - what if there is a photobucket.com and photobucket.co.uk unrelated sites ?
its not spyware its opendns doing the common sence aproche to resolving a unqualified domain name
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Diablo-X
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Post subject: Re: well Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:59 am |
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happyslappy wrote: you have added opendns dns servers ( nout up with that )
but typing in
photobucket in as the url is not good (too lazy to type To Be Honest)
if your browser took you to photobucket.com when you did that its probably google toolbar filling in the rest ( spyware by some standards )
now - opendns does the correct thing imo - what if there is a photobucket.com and photobucket.co.uk unrelated sites ?
its not spyware its opendns doing the common sence aproche to resolving a unqualified domain name
But this opendns website is just the same like..Live search on internet explorer which is equally annoying, one of the reasons I loved firefox is because I could just type, google, gamecommunity, imdb, without putting the address in at all and it automatically doing it for me, by default it would usually put .co.uk in depending on which was more appropriate to me.
It's not google toolbar too btw lol, firefox has done it from day one, but meh guess I'll get rid of my opendns servers  .
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happyslappy
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Post subject: hmm Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:18 am |
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just tried it in firefox and mine goes straight there and im on opendns
no idea then
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Diablo-X
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Post subject: Re: hmm Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:30 pm |
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happyslappy wrote: just tried it in firefox and mine goes straight there and im on opendns
no idea then
Oh cool thanks, I'll try google it some more. _________________
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Arma
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:52 pm |
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Is the address still in your history of typed in addresses or have you cleaned out your private data recently?
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Diablo-X
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:23 pm |
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Arma=GCHQ= wrote: Is the address still in your history of typed in addresses or have you cleaned out your private data recently?
When I close firefox it kills private data, but I run CCleaner about 8 times a day  , like my comp to be optimized 24/7 you see, this DNS website malark is the only flaw on it at the moment .
EDIT: Ok it was infact because of the DNS server addresses I'm using, just got this off wiki
OpenDNS is a free DNS resolution service. It provides the following two recursive nameservers for public use:
* 208.67.222.222 (resolver1.opendns.com)
* 208.67.220.220 (resolver2.opendns.com)
Ok so I need to find a new DNS server address it seems, hmm.
Another EDIT: Found one , everything works dandy now, I type photobucket in, and it finds it for me, and doesn't load another search engine ^^. _________________
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