OpenDNS Says Google-Dell Browser Tool is Spyware

PetManimal writes "David Ulevitch, the founder of OpenDNS, claims that Google and Dell have placed 'spyware' on Dell computers. Ulevitch made the claim based on his observation of the behavior of the Google Toolbar and homepage that comes preinstalled on IE in new Dell machines. He says that a browser redirector sends users who enter nonexistent URLs to a Dell-branded page loaded with Google ads. Another observer, Danny Sullivan, says that this is a different result than what happens on PCs without the redirector. However, the original article notes that Ulevitch has a vested interest in the results of mistyped URLs."

Kinda fitting

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.iwebtool.com/domain_lookup?domain=www.g oogle.com [iwebtool.com]

Age of domain 9 year(s), 9 month(s) and 9 day(s) - Online since: 15-Sep-1997

P.S. Roll your monitor 180 degrees.

Re:Kinda fitting

[kestasjk]

Some may say that was coincidence. Well here's the creepy part:

Take the number of days Google have public (2321), multiply by the number of Chinese people imprisoned thanks to Google (7), multiply by the number of web pages that Google indexes (11,029,291,583), divide by Nostradamus' number that he foretold would mark the beginning of the end (10,392), and round to the nearest 6 (6 as in 666). Now simply base64 encode the number, and you get DLOeVFT0501l==, rearrange the letters and you get "D0LOTSOFeV1l".

Re:Instructions to Remove

[Some Kind Of Record]

Says the guy who bought a laptop with Vista.