Thread: Virgin Media Hijack customers browser search options
View Single Post
Old 22-08-2009, 19:41   #135
Jon T
Inactive
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Mansfield, Notts
Age: 46
Services: Virgin Media Telephone and 100Mb broadband, Sky Q
Posts: 1,994
Jon T has reached the bronze age
Jon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze ageJon T has reached the bronze age
Re: Virgin Media Hijack customers browser search options
Quote:
Originally Posted by MeGMeG View Post
No. They are using their DNS servers. Phone virgin media up and ask them "why am I seeing a virgin search screen in my browser when I misstype youporn.com".
They aren't hijacking anything. If you type type a URL in wrong you normally would get a failed lookup from the dns servers, instead of this happening, they are forwarding the results on to a search engine on your behalf.

BTW, no need to phone up, earlier in the thread this url was posted: https://my.virginmedia.com/advancederrorsearch/settings

Thing is, there are certain family/friends of mine that would welcome this service on their ISP, mainly as their IT literacy is best described as "limited".
Jon T is offline   Reply With Quote