More cases of ISP google Hijacking...

Please review this link -

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us

Many ISP's are redirecting your google.com DNS result to the IP Address of
their "Paxfire" proxy server - effectively letting them record EVERY search
term you Google for marketing or other invasive reasons.

This happens because most home users just use their ISP's DNS servers and
don't think twice. I noticed this yesterday when Google refused to do any
searches for me and a Google "captcha" came up (where you have to type in all
the crazy letters to proceed) and gave a warning that my IP was sending many
searches to Google (an IP, that traced back to DataPipe in San Jose, CA) and
they had to make sure I was not a "virus or a bot" to use google.com.

Well I did some research... Instead of giving you the local search results or
Google banner ads - ISP's are trying to get their PAID SPONSORS on to the
results page. This could also be used to harvest information for marketing
reasons "John in Hoboken likes Kung fu Films and trips to Thailand", etc.

The way to defeat this privacy invasion - make sure your home router has 3
neutral DNS servers that will not redirect your google.com session to the
third party proxy (and these 3 are served via dhcp to your home subnet)

8.8.8.8 (google's open dns)

8.8.4.4 (google's open dns 2)

205.171.3.65 (Qwest business DNS resolver, doesn't seem to proxy the
google.com A record)

Thanks!

Joe Brunner

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Received on Sat Sep 24 2011 - 02:14:43 ART