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Old 22-08-2009, 19:51   #141
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Re: Virgin Media Hijack customers browser search options

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Originally Posted by Stephen View Post
If its VM's own DNS servers providing the search response its not hijacking! Its a redirect, simples
Do you know how DNS works?

VM query a server higher up the chain, then change the NXDomain response for their own result, that's hijacking the query and replacing the NXDomain response from a server higher up the DNS hierarchy with their own. Simples.

EDIT: Technically it's no different from you connecting to a website and me intercepting your request and giving you my own responses. I'd call that a hijacked session. If Virgin run web proxies and change things around again that would be considered as hijacking of web sessions. You must understand that Virgin's DNS is not the be all and end all of DNS in the entire world, they are getting information from elsewhere and changing it.
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