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Why does my browser take me to the WRONG site?

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Mar 15, 202613505 views
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Sometimes I type nytimes.com and my browser takes me to usatoday.com. Sometimes google.com takes me to Bing.com. Sometimes I enter online.wsj.com (Wall street Journal), but I'm taken to online.wsj.com/dr, a sub-directory that doesn't exist, and fails to display any web page. The problem occurs spor…

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Fix for: Why does my browser take me to the WRONG site?

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I may have found the problem. The Cisco Linksys wireless router that I'm using has a known vulnerability: http://www.billgerrard.com/linkSys-by-cisco-wrt160n-wireless-internet-router-dns-resolver-flaw/ In the linked website people complained that th…

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