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[22 Jul 2008 | 16 Comments | 1,852 views]
How to Disable the Rogers Search Page

Since Rogers decided to invade their customers computers with unwanted ads I’ve received a lot of traffic resulting from search engine queries such as disable rogers search page, rogers dns hijack, and rogers hijacked my browser.  I did post a solution to this in a previous post that required editing a Windows system core file.  While that method was definitely successful it does have its drawbacks.  It simply redirects all requests for *.rogers.com to your own machine essentially blocking out all of Rogers.  While this is successful it still does …

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[20 Jul 2008 | 6 Comments | 478 views]
Domain Name Owners Must Fight ROGERS DNS Hijack

How would you feel if this was your home business website and a potential customer was just stolen by Rogers, a major ISP in Canada. Im going to go sit in front of your hardware store and for each customer that opens your door I will try to sell them my hardware tools instead before they get inside the door.
Do you own a domain name?  Like most web site owners you’d likely have your website located at www.yourdomain.com .  What usually happens if you accidentally make a mistake while …