Frontier Search
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Starting today, my computer has been redirrecting me to frontier searches every time I type in a bad URL. This is very annoying and according to the EFF it's also a major security issue. I have no idea as to why it started doing this, as I haven't updated or removed any sort of internet-related items or add-ons. The only reason I can come up with is the fact that I had a black-out yesterday and my router reset.
Before this, I would simply get a "URL not understood" page, which is what I would prefer. I do not want to use the frontier search under any circumstances so I hope you guys can tell me how to stop this.
On 03/10/13 11:11, oralfloss wrote:
> Starting today, my computer has been redirrecting me to frontier
> searches every time I type in a bad URL.
That's not a lot of information, but it sounds like your ISP *could* be
doing DNS poisoning. If you type in a terminal:
$ host thisisnotadomain.org
does it provide an address?
If not, can you provide more information, e.g. give us a step-by-step
description of exactly what you're typing in the address bar?
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Here's my results:
trisquel@thinkpad:~$ host thisisnotadomain.org
thisisnotadomain.org has address 198.105.241.114
thisisnotadomain.org has address 198.105.251.114
Host thisisnotadomain.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Now I'm a bit scared.
An example of something I'll type in is "test.con/" on accident, which will bring me to a redirect. Luckily, I have both NoScript and RequestPolicy enabled, so it never actually reaches he website it is looking for. I have attached a picture of this example.
On 03/10/13 15:26, oralfloss wrote:
> Here's my results:
> trisquel@thinkpad:~$ host thisisnotadomain.org
> thisisnotadomain.org has address 198.105.241.114
> thisisnotadomain.org has address 198.105.251.114
> Host thisisnotadomain.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> Now I'm a bit scared.
>
> An example of something I'll type in is "test.con/" on accident,
> which will bring me to a redirect. Luckily, I have both NoScript and
> RequestPolicy enabled, so it never actually reaches he website it is
> looking for. I have attached a picture of this example.
Your ISP appears to be doing DNS poisoning. This is similar to what I
see when I type that command.
Probably the only thing you can do is complain to your ISP. It will most
likely fall on deaf ears, but it's better than nothing. Alternatively,
if you use Tor then you shouldn't get DNS poisoning, as Tor exit relays
automatically detect and block DNS poisoning.
Andrew.
If I type in test.con into Abrowser, I get "Server not found - Abrowser can't find the server at www.test.con."
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