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gaming_guy
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I'm not sure I understand you completely, but if I do I would look in Firefox's Tools -> Add-ons, and see if there's something in there I could uninstall or disable...0
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Looks like it's something that can be disabled in your my virgin media settings.Estate Agent, Web Designer & All Round Geek!0
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You may be faced with creating a new Firefox profile, or reinstalling Firefox 'from scratch', then.
I also have suffered recently from VM's email antics, but haven't had the result of which you speak, thankfully...0 -
gaming_guy wrote: »Before the downtime, if I put something in the firefox URL bar (say CDburnerXP for example) firefox would look it up on google, then google would silently redirect me to the CDburnerXP website. Now (after the downtime) if I put CDburnerXP in the FF URL bar it will then direct me to the VM advanced search page and give me a page of results rather than silently redirect me to cdburnerxp.se.
It's almost like VM is trying to DNS hijack my connection.
It looks like VM sends everything through a transparent proxy. Since I installed a squid proxy in my network it gives me an error instead going to the top Google search result.0 -
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There was some mention on here months back.
You need to go to your VM account, and disable it from there.
I've done mine but can't find a link.
Yes I've found something.
http://www.oolaa.co.uk/?p=832Move along, nothing to see.0 -
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These are the current [ tonight ] VM servers.
They stopped using the webcache.virginmedia.com on port 8080 years [ may be 3 or 4 ] ago,and now conveniently advise against their use.
Test https://www.facebook.com if it comes back with a cache1.service.virginmedia.net its transparent proxied.
If Virgin are having issues with DNS servers, they tend to switch traffic to proxy/webcache until its sorted then port them back.Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ0 -
There was some mention on here months back.
You need to go to your VM account, and disable it from there.
I've done mine but can't find a link.
Yes I've found something.
http://www.oolaa.co.uk/?p=832
Excellent link, you don't need to be in your account, just on the end of their cable to do it !Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ0
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