Really bloody odd...please help!

maninmacmaninmac
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hello!



So, ever since I upgraded to Tiger I have had this really annoying problem with both safari and firefox...



Whenever I type a URL but spell it wrong (such as bannanarepublic.com) both browsers take me to some third party spam search site (see screenshot



The URL that it sends me to for example is:

http://searchportal.domainsponsor.co...BEAPlxRBQsNAlM



Being that it is both browsers, it has to be something running locally on my machine....this is really worrying me. Does anyone else have this problem? All I want is to get back to my simple "page not found" error, or whatever.



Any ideas?



Thanks guys!



R.





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  • Reply 1 of 4
    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by maninmac

    Hello!



    So, ever since I upgraded to Tiger I have had this really annoying problem with both safari and firefox...



    Whenever I type a URL but spell it wrong (such as bannanarepublic.com) both browsers take me to some third party spam search site (see screenshot



    The URL that it sends me to for example is:

    http://searchportal.domainsponsor.co...BEAPlxRBQsNAlM



    Being that it is both browsers, it has to be something running locally on my machine....this is really worrying me. Does anyone else have this problem? All I want is to get back to my simple "page not found" error, or whatever.



    Any ideas?



    Thanks guys!



    R.









    Spam sites buy domain names similar to real sites hoping someone like you will accidentally misspell it.



    By the way, don't buy from the Banana Republic. It's bad enough that they use sweatshop labor, but then to name themselves after a derogatory word for the countries whose labor they abuse just adds insult to injury.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    onyx-pbonyx-pb Posts: 26member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by maninmac

    Hello!



    So, ever since I upgraded to Tiger I have had this really annoying problem with both safari and firefox...



    Whenever I type a URL but spell it wrong (such as bannanarepublic.com) both browsers take me to some third party spam search site (see screenshot



    The URL that it sends me to for example is:

    http://searchportal.domainsponsor.co...BEAPlxRBQsNAlM



    Being that it is both browsers, it has to be something running locally on my machine....this is really worrying me. Does anyone else have this problem? All I want is to get back to my simple "page not found" error, or whatever.



    Any ideas?



    Thanks guys!



    R.











    Or it might be that the URL you typed is a valid URL... just not the one you wanted:



    PING bannanarepublic.com (216.65.41.185): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 216.65.41.185: icmp_seq=0 ttl=41 time=184.783 ms





    Try something like the following URL and see if that gets the response you wanted:

    www.ibetthisgoesnowhere.com





    btw: wasn't there a fuss a while ago that one of the high level domain organisations changed the way that non-existent domains were handled? Something about it redirecting them to a search site rather than issuing unknown host?
  • Reply 3 of 4
    jwink3101jwink3101 Posts: 739member
    hahahaha, if i only had 10 bucks to my name i would go and buy http://www.ibetthisgoesnowhere.com just for fun. Maybe i will when i get the money if nobody else does.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    What happens if you just type the domain name, like "ebay"?
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