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Submission + - RoadRunner Intercepts Bad URLs, Bypassing Browsers 2

Submitted by shaunco on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @04:22AM

shaunco writes: Sometime around midnight on February 26th (at least for the SoCal users), TimeWarner's RoadRunner service started intercepting failed DNS requests, redirecting them to RoadRunner's own search and advertising platform. To see if this has been enabled in your area, try visiting www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com (or something else random) in your web browser. This feature subverts user preferences set within their web browsers, which allow the user to select which search engine receives their typeos and invalid domains.

RoadRunner user's can disable this by visiting: http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php.

An example RoadRunner results page can be seen at: http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com.

Comment This lady must be retarded... (Score 1) 819

by shaunco on Tuesday February 11, 2003 @12:45AM (#5277027) Attached to: California EULA Lawsuit

I remember back in the day, Symantec had its own 'money back guarantee'... so just for kicks I grabbed a copy of Norton Internet Security 2003... guess what I found on the side of the box:

"Money-back Guarantee
Symantec offers a 60-day money-back guarantee. For return information, please contact Symantec at www.symantec.com/custserv/cs_returns.html. Symantec will send you a refund check, less sales tax and shipping and handling charges collected by your reseller."

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