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What happened is going online resulted in everything being redirected to a BT page saying you're not using our DNS and to change settings so you do. Some googli
by hazeii 8y ago
What happened is going online resulted in everything being redirected to a BT page saying you're not using our DNS and to change settings so you do. Some googling revealed a few people who'd had the same issue and found the (obscure) page that allowed you to undo the block.
I assume they detected it simply by seeing DNS queries going to non-BT servers. Note this was a few years ago when it was pretty common for PC malware to hijack DNS requests, so could be it's changed in the meantime.
N.B. I also recall BT redirecting requests for non-existent domains to some partner of theirs, I assume experimentally as I haven't seen or heard of that for a while.
- _puk 8y ago"N.B. I also recall BT redirecting requests for non-existent domains to some partner of theirs, I assume experimentally as I haven't seen or heard of that for a while" They are still doing this. I ran into it just yesterday. They do however make it very easy (click a couple of links) to turn it off.
- hazeii 8y agoStill, interception of communications is a serious crime (unless your monopoly-scale ISP does it, of course). Thanks for the update (if somewhat depressing to know they still get away with it).