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Dylan
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Re: Karoo Hijack Your Mistyped URLs for Profit
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Reply #15 on:
March 31, 2008, 03:14:08 PM »
Quote from: The Dominator on March 31, 2008, 12:48:27 PM
A repeat of the story here:
http://www.thetelecom.co.uk/20080330/karoo-users-redirected-to-askcom-for-unsuccessful-dns-lookups/
Meh, at least el' Reg and co were polite enough to mention us
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superleeds27
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Re: Karoo Hijack Your Mistyped URLs for Profit
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Reply #16 on:
April 09, 2008, 01:56:16 PM »
I wasn't happy with this, therefore i have reconfigured my Dns's with FreeDns.org
Its better than Karoos Crappy Dns servers!
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The Dominator
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Re: Karoo Hijack Your Mistyped URLs for Profit
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April 10, 2008, 11:39:11 AM »
If PHORM will be opt-in :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/ico_phorm_tougher/
also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7339263.stm
then KCom should follow suit? Shouldn't they?
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The Dominator....
And the following is what i want to acheive - not what KCOM give me!
The Dominator
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Re: Karoo Hijack Your Mistyped URLs for Profit
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Reply #18 on:
April 14, 2008, 02:42:15 PM »
Better late than never -
this forum gets a mention here:
http://annoyedfolk.blogspot.com/2008/03/ispa-need-to-act-now.html
so thanks to Jeepster
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The Dominator....
And the following is what i want to acheive - not what KCOM give me!
Jaseoldboss
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Re: Karoo Hijack Your Mistyped URLs for Profit
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Reply #19 on:
April 14, 2008, 05:54:17 PM »
Just sent an email of complaint about this. As if redirection isn't bad enough, Ask are a spyware company:
http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ask-toolbars
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