[X-Newbies] Open DNS - how to get rid of it!

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Saturday 23 January 2010, GL wrote:
> All of a sudden, instead of the generic error page showing up when a
> URL is bad, I am getting this awful Open DNS page that I do NOT want.
>
> I did NOT install anything.
>
> How to get rid of this putrid spyware?
>
> It is showing up on both my FireFox AND Safari...
>
> I removed cookies but that did nothing.
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AFAIK OpenDNS is _not_ spyware. What DNS are you using? I use OpenDNS (so 
208.67.222.222 and/or 208.67.220.220), and as a matter of fact if I type a 
bad URL I get their page.

If I am right you are using these DNS numbers (though I don't know why - if 
you're using DHCP maybe your provider decided to rely on the OpenDNS DNS 
servers). So of course this will show in _all_ your bowsers.

Probably one way to prevent using their DNS is  to setup another DNS by hand.

Thierry
Using OpenDNS on Linux