NETPRO
@rogers.com
| [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking I have found a few ways to filter out the annoying Rogers hijacking notification on the top of our browsers:
1. The Best and easiest way. Rule Based Firewall. Block anything to 64.71.251.10.It's the rogers' hijacking server. Tested with built-in Vista firewall fine and Norton 360.
2. Personal proxy server. filter out url: »64.71.251.10/ByteCap-100-ES-English/index.js
(Not sure if they have French link, use a sniffer to find out) OR simply fileter out IP if your proxy has such feature.
3. Anti-adware.Not the normal one, but proxy based, such as freeware adscraper. It's slow and affects other web site view though.
Con: since rogers hijack your page and try to redirect you to their url from time to time, you will see a blank page with "done" at the bottom. Just hit refresh once or twice. | |
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 Robrr
join:2008-04-19
Toronto, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking Hey thats good to hear...I punched the IP in on my router's firewall so that should stop or at least slow down all the junk coming from them 
Hmm I wonder if it will stop there little bit that pops up when you get to 75% of your usage for the month. | |
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NETPRO
@rogers.com | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking for sure. they are coming from the same server, both the 75% and 100% notification. Cheers! | |
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Stewy
Premium
join:2007-12-12
Kitchener, ON | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking what browsers are you using, I have firefox with flashblock and Norton 360 and I haven't seen the rogers grayware popups.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware#Grayware | |
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buttaknife
join:2007-06-01 | I use Firefox, NoScript and OpenDNS and I haven't seen it yet, not even a pop up block. | |
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Robrr
join:2008-04-19
Toronto, ON | I'm stuck with IE, other people in my house dont like when I change stuff to make it better. | |
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RandomZero
join:2008-01-07 | The best and easiest way is to use 4.2.2.1/2/3/4 as your DNS servers.
They're fast, never go down, and I'm pretty sure they're corporate. | |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking Those are the Level3 open dns servers in chicago.
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| | clewis4u91
join:2007-03-17
Orangeville, ON | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking I have not seen a single one of these web page notifications. I've even switched my DNS servers back and still nothing. I know for a fact that I've gone over the limit this month, so meh, guess I won't have to worry about seeing them anyways. | |
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join:2008-01-07
| said by twizlar  :Those are the Level3 open dns servers in chicago. I heard they were verizon. Can't remmeber where I heard it though. | |
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twizlar
I dont think so.
Premium
join:2003-12-24
Brantford, ON
| Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking OrgName: Level 3 Communications, Inc.
OrgID: LVLT
Address: 1025 Eldorado Blvd.
City: Broomfield
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80021
Country: US
NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
CIDR: 4.0.0.0/8
NetName: LVLT-ORG-4-8
NetHandle: NET-4-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.LEVEL3.NET
NameServer: NS2.LEVEL3.NET
Comment:
RegDate:
Updated: 2004-06-04
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Broadline Networks Inc. | |
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com
| said by RandomZero :
The best and easiest way is to use 4.2.2.1/2/3/4 as your DNS servers.
They're fast, never go down, and I'm pretty sure they're corporate.
OK 
Can someone please give a quick rundown what this means and how i can implement it.
As of right now, I'm using FF with "Adblock". I don't see the popup but i still have to hit "Refresh" often.
Does this "DNS redirect" avoid the popup altogether?
TIA | |
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Rogers user
@rogers.com | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking To change your DNS in Windows, go to Control Panel, double click Network Connections, right click on Local Area Connection, select Properties, then Internet Protocol TCP/IP , select properties, change the DNS servers. | |
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join:2008-01-07
| Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking said by Rogers user :
To change your DNS in Windows, go to Control Panel, double click Network Connections, right click on Local Area Connection, select Properties, then Internet Protocol TCP/IP , select properties, change the DNS servers.
yep.
If you're using a router then it might be easier to set the DNS in the router so any pc you connect will use it. | |
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| elwoodblues
Elwood Blues
join:2006-08-30
Toronto, ON | Fast is an understatement. I make a DNS change for work, and within minutes those Namservers are already updated.
This allows me to RDP home to test my changes | |
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Robrr
join:2008-04-19
Toronto, ON | I've also got my DNS pointed there as well. | |
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gurn
@rogers.com | there is a way to opt out of seeing them all together. | |
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Fighter
@rogers.com
| There is another good workaround on this problem:
everybody sends email and calls their helpdesk everyday until they give up. Otherwise, we will jam their mailbox and lines. After all, we are customers who are asking reasonable questions. It's our rights. | |
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gurn
@rogers.com | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking you can opt out of seeing the notifications | |
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fighter
@rogers.com | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking how? | |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB
| said by gurn :
you can opt out of seeing the notifications
Only for the current billing cycle. Once you start the next billing cycle the messages will come back until you opt out again. So you'll have to 'opt out' once a month.
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Intel P4 2.8 800 fsb, Asus P4P800 w/1GB PC3200 DDR RAM, 512 MB GeForce 7600GT, SB Audigy Gamer, DVD-Rom/CD-R Burner & LG Duel layer DVD Burner, 320 & 120 GB Internal & 2x 250 & 2x 500 GB External hard drives & Samsung 226BW 22" LCD Monitor | |
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Nemo888
join:2005-12-25
Canada
1 edit | What is the big deal? I like the 75%/100% messages(hit 75% yesterday, hit acknoledge, done. No more messages till 100%) If you want just check "Do Not Send These Messages" instead of acknoledge and you never get one again. What a whiny over reaction.
I think 95GB a month is fair for the price and I don't want to go over. Compared to throttling which was pure hell this is awesome. Now that Teksavvy and third parties are being throttled this is the best deal in Canada. | |
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mordin
42 inches of 1080p
Premium
join:2005-05-28
Moncton, NB
| Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking said by Nemo888 :Compared to throttling which was pure hell this is awesome. Now that Teksavvy and third parties are being throttled this is the best deal in Canada. But Rogers still has throttling - even with caps, overage charges & warning banners. If your Rogers area is suffering throttling it's a 24/7 thing. Bell is throttling it's customers & 3rd party resellers during prime time only - roughly between 5 - 12pm.
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Pegasys66
join:2008-01-16
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| said by Nemo888 : Now that Teksavvy and third parties are being throttled this is the best deal in Canada. You are really funny...
Now that Bell has imposed throttling on independant
ISPs, Rogers' own offerings look better in comparison.
Do you also torture puppies?
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"I do not agree with what Sympatico is doing, but I will fight to the death for their right to do it to their own users."
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com
| K, guys thanx for the replies. So, i went into my Linksys router and it says to sign up @ DynDNS.org.
Did that. Saved settings but i still get the pop up.
Forgive me noobness  .
Anything I'm missing? | |
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StuckWithRogers
@rogers.com
| Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking I don't believe redirecting your DNS lookup will do anything. Rogers is performing a man-in-the-middle attack. Regardless of whose server you did the DNS lookup at, rogers will still hi-jack any unencrypted HTTP traffic, and inject their code mid-transit. The best solution is blocking all traffic to/from 64.71.251.10 and hitting refresh everytime you get a blank page.
Acknowledging those messages to me, would be like agreeing with their ridiculous cap (which I don't) so I would NEVER acknowledge that message even to make it go away. Too bad rogers has a monopoly in my neighborhood, else I'd have switched to teksavvy in a heartbeat. | |
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com | Agreed StuckWithRogers.
I already have the ip blocked(FF with Adblock)and I am constantly hitting Refresh. I would just like to get around that popup altogether. | |
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com | One thing i have noticed about this popup is that it has NEVER popped up in my case when refreshing dslreports.com or the "Startup/Homepage" for Firefox with Google search engine.
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com
| Something weird happening here but maybe good. Could be a coincidence but...
I've updated my XP OS to sp3 and so far, no injection popup.
I still use FF and have Adblock running but Adblock shows the dreaded Roger-Dodgers ip in the "blocked list" in red txt.
The red txt is not even appearing in the list.
I'm going through my bookmarks and refreshing pages that usually would be affected by now but nothing.
I'll post results later as well as maybe it's a fluke.
Or...maybe some weird coincidence has occurred that within sp3, there has been a security issue addressed that is similar to the tech rogers is using to inject this mess. | |
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Netpro
@rogers.com | Re: [ Express] Workarounds for Rogers' web hijacking Maybe you just simply went into a new billing cycle. go to rogers.com and check your current usage. As long as it's below 75% for the current billing cycle, you won't see anything. Otherwise, the ip blocking is the most effective way. | |
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RobbersHater
@rogers.com | Nah, billing cycle is on the 10th of the month and i started noticing this change immediately after upgrading.
Still no popup btw. after quite a few hours. | |
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RandomZero
join:2008-01-07
2 edits | yep, confirmed that dns doesn't do anything for this 
Also, that 64.* ip address apparently does nothing.
I've added it and the dns to my hosts file as well as peer guardian and I'm still recieving the alerts.
Upon further testing (adding double spaces in my hosts file and browsing around different websites for the past 15 or so minutes), I've discovered I've yet to recieve another popup... Perhaps this does work? And you don't even have to refresh anything, it just doesn't display anything.. | |
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