Comment This is a tempest in a teacup. (Score 2, Informative) 230
IE is - as stated above - being helpfull, as a program should be. It is not a "hijacking" since the program requesting the DNS-lookup is IE. This is nothing like having NXDOMAIN, transparently, changed into something it isn't on the network-level.
In one case the program gets to decide what to do and in the other someone else is telling your program that the expected result is something else.