Comments on: How to Disable the Rogers Search Page

By: Jason Paul Ferguson

Jason Paul Ferguson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:28:44 +0000

@PedalNinja,

Windows Vista/7 users are going to first want to open notepad in Administrator mode. Then they will want to browse to the host file and open it from notepad.

Trying to open the hosts file directly will probabbly throw up an error saying you need to be in Administrator mode when you try to save the file.

By: Jason Paul Ferguson

Jason Paul Ferguson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:23:29 +0000

The real shame that is as a consumer, most of us only have one option for high speed internet service in our area. So if some idiot decides to have you pay them to hijack your dns results, unless your somewhat computer savvy you really don’t have any choice.

On the other hand, I certainly wouldn’t mind being the guy on the other end of that check for ppc revenue.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:27:49 +0000

my pleasure. I am glad to see all the people this post has helped.

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:31:35 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:19:48 +0000

Thanks, I was wondering how to clear that.

By: Norbert

Norbert — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:38:36 +0000

Thank You. I was about to rip my modem out of my wall.

By: PWatson

PWatson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:09:27 +0000

Thanks Dan and everyone else. I had a bout of “search.rogers.com”itis that just appeared today. Thank God I didn’t have to go through the BS that I did when my child accidentally (i.e. was tricked into) installing “search.myfunweb.com”. That took a while to remove all the registry changes etc. Totally p***ed me off. Today, I got the Rogers crap, so thanks for making it very easy for me to get rid of it (I used the free DNS settings 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2). All 4 computers back to normal in 5 min. Not only was the Rogers search something I didn’t want, it was so slow and never came up with the website I was looking for in the first place. I really, really hate this stuff that wastes all my time. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.

By: Colin Ferguson

Colin Ferguson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:53:31 +0000

Thanks Dan (and Frank). Good stuff; I think I’ll be sending a few folks this way to read up.

By: Sheff

Sheff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:43:30 +0000

Now I’ve got friggin’ Bing hijacking my browser and doing the same friggin’ thing that Rogers did. If I enter “joe blow” in my address bar where the url goes, it takes me to Bing when two days ago it took me to Google.

First Rogers, now Micro$oft!!!

This one appears to be much harder to get rid of. I’ve only found a couple of forums discussing it but nobody has posted a solution, hat I can find anyway.

Bag O’ SNAKES!!!!

Sheff

By: Sheff

Sheff — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:30:42 +0000

Funny, I just cleaned up an infected computer for someone who could not go to certain web sites to download removal tools and I had to remove similar entries from the host file that had been placed in there blocking them from going to the Micro$oft, Malware Bytes and the AVG websites.

It never even dawned on me to use this file to block the rogers search engine.

I see one problem with this solution. I believe placing such an entry in the host file will return a “page not found” when it tries to go to the rogers search engine.

I want mispelled urls to go straight to Google, or any other search engine that I choose.

Sheff