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

[GL]

Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... Comcast denies they  
have hijacked the browser for this site which censors other sites.


On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> 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
>
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