Comments on: Google turns the page… in a bad way.

By: Domisfera » Articulo » La demanda de Dell (Parte II)

Domisfera » Articulo » La demanda de Dell (Parte II) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:48:26 +0000

[…] procedentes de esas instalaciones con Dell. Un segundo programa intercepta los dominios typo y redirige al usuario a una página con publicidad que incluye links […]

By: OpenDNS - foot in the mouth | Easytooeasy-build your business

OpenDNS - foot in the mouth | Easytooeasy-build your business — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:04:40 +0000

[…] take a closer look at this article by OpenDNS. Seems that this pre-installed software is causing problem for OpenDNS to show their own […]

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:45:34 +0000

I don’t have a Dell but Google hijacked my IE 7. When ever I change my start page to anything other than www.google.com, it changes back. I’ve tried IE tools, Spybot S&D, regedit, Desktop properties, and everything else I can think of or find on the net. I even went so far as to edit my hosts file to block Google. Evidently, there’s a Google created malware program on my PC. Damn thier eyes! They’re getting as cocky as Microsoft.

By: Wikia « Bienvenidos al desierto de lo real

Wikia « Bienvenidos al desierto de lo real — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:14:44 +0000

[…] de los usuarios hacia Google que parece estar empezando a surgir, por aquello de la censura y el flirteo con spyware o que ha pasado de ser la pobre empresita que ofrecía alternativa a la gran Yahoo, a estar hasta […]

By: Eric Woehrling

Eric Woehrling — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:17:03 +0000

I suffered a similar experience using a Sony. What’s even more stupid than DAve’s experience is that the google re-direction actually stopped me from seeing any websires at all. After my wife searched something on google I typed in a web address. From that point on, the web browser would always add in a google url (http://www.google.co.uk/hws/sony/afe?hl=en&s=) in front of whatever web page I was trying to access. So if I typed in http://www.talktalk.co.uk/ it would direct me to
http://www.google.co.uk/hws/sony/afe?hl=en&s=http://www.talktalk.co.uk/. This is ridiculous, as none of these urls are valid. I never asked to have this stupid pre-fix attached to the urls I type in, I just want to type them in myself. I was able to get rid of it by de-installing the google toolbar and a programme called something like “google windows” application.
Bottom line, not only is google installing this re-directing software on pc, but the stupid redirecting software doesn’t actually re-direct you anywhere.

By: mikaluch

mikaluch — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:25:09 +0000

Sorry to post so late on this, but I just joined this site and couldn’t pass up saying something about this. Before I ever saw this thread, the first thing I did with my openDNS account was block google.com. This is because I am sick and tired of slaving over firewall rules to try to achieve effective outbound filtering, only to have my logs flooded with message after message to google (sorry, I won’t capitalize the name of a spyware proliferer). This after changing all of my default search engines away from google and attempting to remove google from all of the search lists on my machines. If you don’t think google uses spyware tactics, you are not filtering outbound traffic, or you are not reading your logs. And yes, I know I could just drop the google traffic without logging, but once you start dropping logs of traffic that shouldn’t be there, you are headed for trouble. There is a reason that google knows more than anyone else about everything, and its not because they are minding their own business.

By: Cassi

Cassi — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:37:20 +0000

I’m just an average-not-very-computer-savy person who uses the net to shop, research & learn stuff. Well, what I’ve learned is that google & dell are scumbags, turning into MONOPOLIES! My homepage is jacked on a regular basis (despite using software programs that are supposed to prevent it) & tonight internet explorer ‘couldn’t find eBay’ so I got the dell/google pages full of shoddy ads for crap even idiots wouldn’t buy. I will ROT IN HELL before I ‘google’ anything OR buy another dell computer. I’ve used Dogpile for months now; at least there’s a cute little pup to look at.

By: Dell Addresses Fake Google Results Adware App… Sorta… « insignificant thoughts

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:48:37 +0000

[…] on Dell systems are a bit different from google.com, and can’t be easily compared. Blog posts like this one express concern about the URL Assistant specifically. The purpose of this utility is to handle a […]

By: Dell is Removing some of the Bloat - CyberNet News

Dell is Removing some of the Bloat - CyberNet News — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:02:07 +0000

[…] Dell/Google URL Assistant has also been getting criticized lately for the way it handles mistyped URL’s. For example, if you type in digg.xom the URL Assistant […]

By: Kevin Severud

Kevin Severud — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:59:26 +0000

In case it hasn’t been mentioned here yet (I did try to check but the page has become quite long) a recent posting in the Direct2Dell blog by Michelle Pearcy points to the support doc about how to uninstall the URL Assistant:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=081068F6B4CEC8C1E0401E0A551769A5&doclang=EN#4