ISP DNS Hijacking

[jakeson]

Hey Guys and Girls and Blue,

I have been having a web browsing problem recently. My service provider is Time Warner and my main router is a Linksys WRT54G2 flashed with DD-WRT. My computer has a 30 day old install of Win 7 Ultimate x64. Web sites wouldn't load in either Exploder or Chrome. That's not entirely true, after refreshing several times, sites would load, Slowly. Even sites I visit regularly. Also, I noticed with other peoples computers that their browsers would get hijacked to Time Warners search page and were having the same problem I was loading sites or even getting search results to display(kept getting "cannot display" error messages).
I have been running spyware scans, resetting browsers, flushdns, changing DNS servers(Google, Opendns and TWC)etc. Nothing I did made any difference. I found this app while searching for DNS testers https://code.google.com/p/namebench/. Supposedly it tests lots of DNS servers and reports back which is the best choice. I ran the default test. While reviewing the results I noticed that they all had references to hijacking in them, so I started looking up these references. I found this article: http://hackercodex.com/guide/how-to-sto ... hijacking/
After following the instructions, sites open every time and much faster. I also, haven't seen a "cannot display" message. I haven't fully tested my other devices smartphone, Bluray player(Netflix). But, they seem a little bit better. I don't think this would have any effect on ET, except it might connect a little faster. Fuck Time Warner!

Oh after doing this, you must /flushdns. Instructions: http://www.wikihow.com/Flush-DNS and a reboot probably isn't necessary, but it can't hurt.

Happy Browsing and FUCK TWC (and anyone else who pulls shit like this)

[Pedro-NF]

1 - If you're using the ISP's own DNS servers, it's common to be redirected to a page on the ISP when you type a URL that won't resolve.

2 - If you're using a public DNS server (like Google's), 1 shouldn't happen. At least I haven't used a public DNS server yet that does that. If you still get redirected to a page on your ISP even when you're not using the ISP's DNS servers, call the ISP, say you're gonna kill all their families and change ISP's.

3 - Check the HOSTS file in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\. If it hasn't been changed by something, it should contain the text below:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

( Reference: How can I reset the Hosts file back to the default? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034 )

4 - Use the shell command IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS every time you change DNS servers.

5 - You might wanna work on your punctuation and paragraph separation, your text is extremely hard to read.