| I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Eric Dykstra | 3/22/11 11:10 PM | I don't have spyware, and have done no unusual activity.I will be changing my default search engine to Blekko until Google fixes this for me. About this page Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/23/11 7:14 PM | I have been having the same problem for two days now and it's driving me crazy. I'm a home user with a secure connection. I don't have any malware and am experienced enough to have a solid firewall and anti-virus. Just as a precaution, I did do a |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/23/11 7:26 PM | I could echo what CateWA wrote. Ditto! I'm frustrated and not sure what to do next. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | eric_stoner | 3/23/11 7:32 PM | Same symptoms here. It started yesterday afternoon. I tried upgrading to Firefox 4 but |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/23/11 7:35 PM | I'm so glad to see others reporting in, it's got to be a Google issue. I'm in WA state on Frontier DSL, if it's provider related at all. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | strizh1245 | 3/23/11 7:37 PM | Started to have the same issue yesterday. Google Search tests if I am a robot or not once an hour, which is very annoying! Dear Google, please change back your yesterday's implementation, or Bing and others will win your customers! |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | strizh1245 | 3/23/11 7:39 PM | Maybe, it is provider - mine is Frontier, again in WA... |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Eric Dykstra | 3/23/11 7:42 PM | I'm on Frontier in WA too. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | strizh1245 | 3/23/11 7:51 PM | Hi All, just found that Google asks to report such issues through below link: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=ban You will need to know your IP. Hopefully, it will highlight the issue either to Google or Frontier |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | eric_stoner | 3/23/11 7:52 PM | I'm on Frontier in WA too... sounds like they could be the problem? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/23/11 8:10 PM | Very interesting, I bet it's something Google is picking up on Frontier activity, but what a pain. I reported my IP# earlier on the link that strizh1245 posted above. Maybe everyone should do that and they will look into it. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/23/11 10:53 PM | I'm also seeing this problem as of two days ago. The frustrating thing is that Google gives you absolutely no idea how to track this down. Nothing new was installed on my system and I'm careful on the web. I'm on Frontier in WA also. I released a |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | zihaut | 3/23/11 11:44 PM | Same here. Frontier. WA. Has anyone called Frontier yet? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | frictorious | 3/23/11 11:55 PM | Also Frontier in WA. It's getting very annoying. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Joe N. | 3/24/11 2:50 PM | I have been having this issue for 2 days now. I'm a network admin, and I can't find anything on my home network that is at all suspicious. Interesting enough I am also on Frontier FIOS in WA. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | seattle_jay | 3/24/11 3:12 PM | Same annoying issue for a couple of days; Bing is looking better every day. We're also on Frontier FIOS in WA. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Wakapedia | 3/24/11 3:40 PM | Frontier FIOS in WA as well. Same issue with Firefox 4 |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Design By Pepper | 3/24/11 3:52 PM | same with google chrome or ie8. I am also on Frontier |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Design By Pepper | 3/24/11 3:57 PM | also having other problems connecting to some websites, i am refused connection, assume this is also related to frontier, i found out that Frontier.NET is on the ubi blacklist also for unusual activity. cannot connect to http://www.southington.org which is |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/24/11 5:33 PM | It stopped happening for me last night. I got a call from someone (Pablo) at Frontier trying to track down anybody currently having the problem. He said he had a lot of calls to make. Enter a problem report at Frontier's web site: http://www.fro |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/24/11 6:07 PM | I'm on Frontier in Washington also. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | tahoejava | 3/24/11 7:34 PM | yea...frontier in washington, east side of lake washington. what's their problem? time to make some calls. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | lazybear77 | 3/24/11 7:35 PM | I'm having the same problem. I'm in Redmond WA state on Frontier DSL, running Chrome,on win7,also xp. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/24/11 7:39 PM | I just filled out the Frontier email support that LemurCatta posted above, hope it helps. I think everyone should do that or make a phone call. I loathe dealing with support so I went the email route first. I haven't got the CAPTCHA yet tonight, b |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/24/11 8:05 PM | I've been on live chat and on the phone with Frontier tonight....they really aren't sure what the issue is and will have Pablo call me tomorrow. Hope it solves the issue. I also am Redmond, Wa. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/24/11 8:06 PM | Direct line to Frontier: 1-877-500-5518. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | tahoejava | 3/24/11 8:42 PM | 850pm 3-24 update for everybody. just got off the phone w/ frontier. they said they (or google...he was a little fuzzy on the details but i believe it's frontier) is resetting IP addresses and that's causing google to squirm. he thinks it'll be "don |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | xcal1ber | 3/25/11 12:20 AM | Im on frontier in Washington. its been 3 days for me. Im glad I found this post thought something was wrong with my pc at first. thanks |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | presotto | 3/25/11 1:02 PM | In the past, user connections from Frontier to Google have come over a very small set of addresses (one or two), probably because Frontier is either NATing for their users or using some manner of proxying (perhaps an invisible one). The result is t |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/25/11 2:48 PM | Well, I thought the problem was gone but it's not. One entire day without seeing it but it just happened again. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/25/11 3:22 PM | Just happened for the first time today, I too, thought it was gone. I heard back from Frontier support and they blamed it on Google and just directed me to fill out the Google link that was posted earlier. Well I did that previously. I then got an |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Design By Pepper | 3/25/11 3:27 PM | seems to be better today so far, it's certainly a problem with frontier. i found out frontier ended up on a block ip list and that explains why we can't connect to certain sites. unbelievable. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/25/11 3:27 PM | Same for me too. It was fine all day. Now I don't even get the CAPTCHA screen.....just no response when hitting return. I got the same email as CateWA. Hope it helps. No word today from Frontier. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Design By Pepper | 3/25/11 3:31 PM | It's not just google, i can't connect to http://www.southington.org but I can get it with my cell phone. I think it's a problem with frontier, they won't listen to me though, but they might listen to http://google.com :) |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/25/11 3:47 PM | I just got the email from Google asking for nslookup output. While I was replying I didn't get the problem but just before I hit send it started happening again and now all my searches are captcha-blocked. The http://southington.org link doesn't work for |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Kirstie | 3/25/11 3:47 PM | Hey everyone, I want to chime in on this thread to let you know that Frontier is aware this is a problem and they're trying to fix it. Best, Kirstin |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | strizh1245 | 3/25/11 4:17 PM | Same situation as LemurCatta - just was trying to find this page through Google Search to send a link for Google rep, as this CAPTCHA appeared. Send nslookup info, CAPTCHA page text and link to this page. Hopefuly, it will help both compasnies to adj |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TTaM | 3/25/11 5:03 PM | Haveing the same problem here. Verizon/Frontier user. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | greekdave | 3/25/11 8:04 PM | Frontier FiOS in Oregon, been getting the google captcha page since 3/22. This is getting annoying. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | lazybear77 | 3/26/11 12:37 AM | Frontier contacted me just to say that I needed to contact Google.Come on... Frontier can't even maintain their company website at a reasonably functioning state. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/26/11 12:19 PM | Still happening for me today. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | lazybear77 | 3/26/11 12:48 PM | yep, still not fixed. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/26/11 12:57 PM | Me too. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | knoydart | 3/26/11 1:27 PM | I get the CAPTCHA message only from my PC, not 2 others connected to the same router! Best of all I get told that this is due to excessive queries from this PC....great, our PCs have been turned OFF all week! Solution? Dump Google & go with Bing! |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/26/11 1:44 PM | Hmmm, things were working for me last night and this morning and now the captcha is back. This is taking a really long time to get fixed. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | menscher | 3/26/11 5:42 PM | Hi, everyone. I want to assure you that at Google we are following this very closely, and trying to get Frontier to fix the issue. The root of the problem is that Frontier is intercepting some traffic, so when you try to use Google your search actua |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | seattlemark | 3/26/11 6:13 PM | It has been happening to me to as well since at least 3/22/2011. I am also with Frontier FIOS in Washington State. I just did the test recommended by menscher above. In Step 2, the results I had did indeed show as-- OrgName: Frontier Commun |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | CateWA | 3/26/11 6:48 PM | @menscher - Thanks for the detailed information, it gives me a better understanding of this. I had the same results from my nslookup the other day, but I did not understand what those results meant. I'll be reading the link on changing DNS, I've c |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/26/11 7:20 PM | @menscher - Yes, thanks for the info. We now know who to complain to. Intercepting searches is a very shady business. I appreciate the communications from Google on this. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/26/11 7:30 PM | It's interesting that a tracert to http://www.google.com goes through the two final locations: 12 81 ms 135 ms 124 ms http://verizon-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.180.134] 13 38 ms 83 ms 64 ms 184.16.33.50 Then all further jumps just time out. T |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | seattlemark | 3/26/11 8:03 PM | On one of my PCs on the Frontier router have tried menschers' workaround of using Google DNS settings. I don't know for sure if that fixed the CAPTCHA message I have been getting on and off since 3/22/2011, as I had already done the non-robot verfica |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | gracie62 | 3/26/11 8:10 PM | I just had that happen to me for the first time-thought I was searching too much, but I have searched much more than that before. I also have frontier, but in IN. I was actually reluctant to do the captcha, thinking the warning itself was not legit |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | seattlemark | 3/26/11 8:21 PM | On one of my PCs on the Frontier router I have temporarily tried menscher's workaround of using the free Google DNS servers. I don't know for sure if that fixed the CAPTCHA message I have been getting on and off since 3/22/2011, as I had already don |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/26/11 10:39 PM | Just switched over to Google's DNS server and things are working fine. Just did nslookup http://www.google.com and got: C:\>nslookup www.google.comServer: buffalo.setupAddress: 192.168.0.1 Non-authoritative answer:Name: www.l.google.comAddresses: 74. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | sharonplotkin3d | 3/26/11 11:25 PM | Hi -- I am in Kirkland WA and I talked to a rep from Frontier Fios on Saturday. This problem is due to an IP migration which Frontier started earlier in the week. This is not Google's fault. Frontier has been aware of this since Friday, accordin |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | jorusfett | 3/26/11 11:32 PM | I am glad I am not the only one having this issue. I have Frontier FIOS in the Seattle, WA area. It's been going on for a few days and is quite obnoxious. I changed the DNS settings on my router and haven't had an issue since. I called Frontier just |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/27/11 9:34 AM | West Region Contact Information For inquiries specific to Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Denise Baumbach President, West Region mailto:Denise.Baumbach@ftr.com Jack Yovanovich Regional Director of Mark |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cbinred | 3/27/11 9:36 AM | The above names and addresses are for the West Coast Frontier group. Perhaps we should go to the top. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | thebodyworker | 3/27/11 11:29 AM | this is happening to me for a few weeks. It is also blocking me from having access to my website servers. My server thinks I am some kind of threat. My web guys have to keep unblocking me... I |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | coopomfs | 3/27/11 7:07 PM | Here is what I found. I called the 800 number for frontier (posted earlier in this thread). Explained the problem. The tech asked me to sign into my frontier online account account and once I was signed in change the web address to searchguide.fronti |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/27/11 8:12 PM | coopomfs suggestion to use http://searchguide.frontiernet.net/prefs.php to opt out for search landings WORKED! previously nslookup and whois yielded frontier. now it yields google. i did not have to change dns. it seems wrong this should work. http://google.co |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | js119 | 3/27/11 10:45 PM | I've had this same problem for about a week, am with Frontier in WA. I just tried the l |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/27/11 11:14 PM | I saw that once while i was looking around deciding if I wanted to do this or not. I tried again and i got access. Try again a few times and you will probably have success. I'd flush your browser cache before each try, too, just to be on the safe si |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 3/27/11 11:20 PM | What should be really embarrassing for Frontier is that they couldn't fix this over a weekend (assuming they fix it at all). This looks like a technical error caused by a business decision. If it was purely technical then I assume it would have been |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/27/11 11:35 PM | "...which is pathetic" agreed. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | js119 | 3/28/11 12:09 AM | I've tried many times, closed/opened the browser, closed/opened my account. I'll call t |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | js119 | 3/28/11 7:32 AM | Although I have still been unable to access preferences, as of this morning, nslookup p |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/28/11 9:10 AM | me too. i reenabled the non-existing domain landing option and restarted modem/router/system to be sure no caching issues and nslookup got me google instead of frontier, so something has changed at frontier and doing nothing (assuming you want to use |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | js119 | 3/28/11 9:30 AM | In case anyone else has trouble with the preferences/option page, frontier emailed me t |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/28/11 10:21 AM | that is a different page! and from the description sounds more appropriate to the situation we experienced. what a f...ing mess. here is what it says: "This preference allows you to opt in or out of the Frontier redirect service. At any point in ti |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TremorBshakey | 3/28/11 10:32 AM | and now i can't get to the original page either, though i could a couple of hours ago. bottom line it appears things are fixed for google interceptions if you do nothing. If you trust the description on the new page it seems a good thing to opt out o |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | deldryden | 4/5/11 12:47 PM | This just started happening to me today. It's not being intercepted by Frontier unless they're an umbrella org that includes IBBS. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Taurenectomy | 5/9/11 5:50 AM | Hey guys this is happening to me to im in Poplar Bluff MO with a a antivirus internet suite and this problem is effecting me..idk how much longer i am going to be a google customer. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Taurenectomy | 5/9/11 5:57 AM | NetName: IBBS-209-55-0-0 NetHandle: NET-209-55-0-0-2 Parent: NET-209-55-0-0-1 NetType: Reassigned RegDate: 2000-07-11 Updated: 2004-05-13 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-55-0-0-2 went to |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Hindsight | 5/19/11 10:33 AM | This problem started to affect me today, and my ISP is WideOutWest (WOW). |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Sarnott153 | 5/19/11 12:20 PM | Like others, I have scanned and found nothing but will also go through our corporate firewall logs. I used a console as suggested but never touched Frontier. The Whois response goes directly to Google in your allocated IP block. FYI, this ONLY happe |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Lorror | 5/20/11 10:12 AM | Happening here, too. No new software, same computer, I even upgraded my browser. No help. I'm going elsewhere if it doesn't stop. This has gone on for days. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 5/20/11 11:47 AM | Those of us with this problem back in March are not seeing this anymore. It was a problem specific to the fact that Frontier was intercepting DNS requests to Google and injecting their own info. Google was interpreting this (correctly) as hijacking |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Lorror | 5/20/11 3:14 PM | Hi, LemurCatta- We've tried 3 computers and 2 different browsers, IE and Firefox, and have experienced the same thing with all. I don't understand as we don't look up sensitive material or illegal material. We're all hobbyists, and I work online, so |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | lee250 | 5/20/11 4:48 PM | I've got the same problem with Hughesnet. I did the ns/ip look-up above and got - NetRange: 66.82.0.0 - 66.82.255.255 CIDR: http://66.82.0.0/16 OriginAS: NetName: DIRECPC-1BLK NetHandle: NET-66-82-0-0-1 Parent: NET-66-0 |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | epatnoe | 5/20/11 10:22 PM | This happens with nearly every google search I do now. I have run multiple malware apps to no avail.I also looked up the IP: |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | dmenscher | 5/21/11 12:19 AM | lee250 or epatnoe (or others who use Hughes): The output you show indicates Hughes is intercepting traffic intended for Google, just as Frontier was for their users back in March. Could you also check some other sites (like http://www.blogger.com), to see |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | epatnoe | 5/21/11 8:47 AM | @dmenscher -Thanks for the help. Interestingly enough I don't use Hughes as an ISP. Maybe my ISP leases services from hughes or something along those lines. Out of curiosity, I did a lookup for my ISP and it didn't come back as Hughes. It was liste |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | epatnoe | 5/21/11 11:08 PM | I chatted online with Hughes.net support tonight, not helpful at all. My Chat with Hughes net this evening: donot...@hughes.net show details 1:01 AM (3 minutes ago)[May 22 2011 1:20:54 AM] Welcome to our chat customer support . [May 22 2011 1:21:05 A |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 5/22/11 12:06 AM | That is pretty amusing. Almost like a chat bot. The problem is that Hughes doesn't have a direct relationship with you but they do with your ISP. Your ISP is punting by telling you to contact Hughes but it's their job to sort this out. I would gu |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | epatnoe | 5/22/11 9:35 AM | Thank you LemurCatta! I have switch my DNS servers to Googles. Everything seems to be working great. I will contact my ISP again on Monday and see where that goes.. I was trying to get angry talking with Lisa 2 hughes but I just kept laughing. I'm |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 5/22/11 11:40 AM | The good thing about the Google DNS servers is you know that they won't be intercepting requests for Google searches! This situation is a good example of why people are concerned about net neutrality. If your ISP has the right to do anything they w |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | captainbooshi | 5/22/11 12:17 PM | I live in Maryland, and I am having the same problem. We do get our internet through Hughes, and the nslookup is returning a "Hughes Network Systems" IP address regularly. I have to fill the captcha out 10-12 time before the search will go through. I |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Autotraker | 5/22/11 5:03 PM | I'm having this same problem on Hughesnet. This is really ridiculous that I had to fill out that CAPTCHA every other time I use Google. Not the CAPTCHA doesn't even work. No Googling for me. Where/who do I complain to? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 5/22/11 5:27 PM | There is information on this thread about how to switch to using the Google DNS servers which will eliminate this problem. You and the other Hughes customer should complain to Hughes and escalate it. The Hughes DNS servers are doing something wrong |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Don_Br | 5/22/11 5:57 PM | It almost sounds like nobody here has ever heard of a proxy server! Hughes has run "web acceleration" since 2003; ALL port 80 traffic from a Hughes user will show as arriving at the destination from a handful of proxy server IPs. All. Repeat, ALL. N |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 5/22/11 10:34 PM | Your assumption is that Hughes has changed nothing. My experience was that the ISP changed something and triggered the Google response. Neither of us actually knows the facts. I'm not really defending either corporation but just following the logic |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | epatnoe | 5/23/11 1:22 AM | @ Don_Br You're probably right, most people on here haven't heard of proxy servers. They don't need to know. They just want their problem fixed. They don't care how the internet works, they just want to use it. This exact issue has happened before |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Autotraker | 5/23/11 9:19 AM | Tried switching to google DNS and still getting the constant CAPTCHA screens which don't seem to work. Google right now is unusable with HughesNet. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Teiresias | 5/23/11 9:23 AM | This is not just an issue with Frontier, as I'm having the same Captcha issue using Cavalier DSL here in Virginia. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Suzanne ASNE | 5/23/11 1:27 PM | We also just started having the same problem with Cavalier in northern Virginia. I changed the DNS to a free host on the two affected computers in our small office and that seems to have solved the issue. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | baltoperson | 5/24/11 11:40 AM | also having the problem with Cavalier in Baltimore, MD. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Ninjames | 5/24/11 2:59 PM | This is happening to me with Charter in Empire and Turlock, CA |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Ninjames | 5/24/11 3:05 PM | My OrgName says GoogleInc and this still happens to me. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Loadsmart | 5/25/11 10:35 AM | My ISP is Skybeam. Yet HughesNet is intercepting my google searches..... Hmmmm, interesting. I have to laugh pretty hard about the Chat that Eric had with Hughesnet. They used to be my provider and they have THE WORST customer service I have EVER e |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Loadsmart | 5/25/11 1:00 PM | Well, skybeam suggests that I report it to Google using this link. Worth a try I guess.... http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=ban |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | dmenscher | 5/26/11 9:31 PM | Hey everyone, The problem with Hughes has been resolved. As some of you have noted, other ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are also intercepting traffic. As we identify them (with your help), we’re talking to them and asking them to stop. You c |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bonsaipark | 5/26/11 11:21 PM | For about a week I've had to interpret a CAPTCHA almost every search. It takes me several tries because I'm visually impaired, which is making Google almost useless! I've tried the nslookup trick and found that my Google searches are, in fact, being |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bonsaipark | 5/26/11 11:28 PM | Sorry... forgot to add the name of my ISP. It's a small company called NCConnect (http://www.ncconnect.net), but they're just a small business that that gets the actual hookup through GlobalPOPs (or is it Ad-Base Systems?): http://www.globalpops.com |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | mpitcher | 5/27/11 9:12 AM | ISP is Cavalier. We are in Baltimore, MD nslookup http://www.google.com server: UnKnown Address: 10.1.10.252 Non-authoritative answer: Name: http://www.google.com Addresses: 8.15.228.161 69.25.212.57 |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bhlpost | 5/27/11 9:49 AM | I'm having the same issue. Nslookup result: |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bhlpost | 5/27/11 9:54 AM | Btw, I checked a handful of other websites and only Bing.com returned the same result. All others resulted in IP addresses belonging to the intended target. So, clearly this is a search targeted intercept. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | evansgw | 5/27/11 12:23 PM | Cavalier, Baltimore MD. Sort it out google! |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bonsaipark | 5/27/11 12:45 PM | I tried calling Level3 and Internap Network Services Corporation, but their response was basically, "are you paying us for anything? <click>". Not surprised. But I'd hoped they could at least give me some clue as to why all of my search information i |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | ericahoerl | 7/22/11 7:55 AM | I had this problem for days on my iphone and this is what finally worked: I rebooted my iphone 4, did an ios update and then cleared my cookies, which worked immediately. Not sure the OS update was necessary but it needed to be done regardless. Hope |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Jhaus | 8/5/11 2:38 PM | Just wanted to report getting the same CAPTCHA a number of times on Time Warner Cable in Manhattan, NY over the past few years. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Smolin | 9/22/11 12:09 PM | I've got Time Warner Cable (Kingston/Poughkeepsie) and I've had this CAPTCHA thing happening the past few days. It looks like the intercepting party is American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN): C:\nslookup http://www.google.com Server: ns1.mindsprin |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/22/11 10:55 PM | We are also on Earthlink (former Mindspring) via TWC, but in San Diego. Same problems with Google, it all started on September 21. Five computers on our home network all have this issue. Did every virus/trojan/rootkit scan possible without finding |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Smolin | 9/23/11 11:13 AM | BBres: Thanks for pointing out the IP address discrepancy. I got the CAPTCHA thing just now, and it lists my IP as 64.27.117.221 -- which it isn't. (My IP is actually 76.xxx.xxx.xxx.) The IP that gets listed by CAPTCHA apparently belongs to DataPipe, |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/23/11 5:24 PM | Since I started noticing this I have had IP address redirects from 64.27.117.225, 64.27.117.226, and 64.27.117.230. I sent email to the system manager at datapipe but have not heard anything yet. I also opened a ticket with Earthlink customer suppo |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | jal1979 | 9/24/11 11:02 AM | ISP = Earthlink (via Time Warner Cable) Location: Woodside, NYC Results of nslookup: |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/24/11 11:28 AM | There is much discussion on other forums re this problem. It indeed appears to be an E |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | jal1979 | 9/24/11 12:49 PM | For: Earthlink users who are experiencing the CAPTCHA problem. The IP address I'm getting via nslookup is registered to a company called DataPipe. I called customer service and spoke to a helpful and knowledgeable network guy there. He said he was n |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | kimbanyc | 9/24/11 2:41 PM | I checked the whois and it was Google. Now what? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | alliehamilton | 9/24/11 9:23 PM | I've posted on a few forums about the same problem. My experience mirrors everyone else here. Every time i try to search with Google i get the same message, with Google saying I am on a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IP address to what I have. It says I am at |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 9/25/11 12:23 AM | It seems evident to me that Earthlink is allowing your queries to Google to be intercepted and routed to DataPipe. You need to confront Earthlink and let them know this is unacceptable. This is what Frontier tried to do to us here in the Northwest a |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | kimbanyc | 9/25/11 1:31 PM | My ISP is Time Warner Cable. But Google was listed when I followed the instructions above. Damian of Google, is Time Warner Cable (in New York City) on the list of providers intercepting the data? Please advise. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | lil_kim_m | 9/25/11 8:50 PM | Hi, I'm receiving two different intercepts when I run the diagnostic. How can I fix? OrgName: DataPipe, Inc. OrgId: DATAPI-2 Address: 10 Exchange Place, Suite 1200 City: Jersey City StateProv: NJ PostalCode: |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | iBriaan | 9/25/11 9:05 PM | I am also using TimeWarner and from New York City. When I looked up the IP address that was returned to me after I put nslookup http://google.com into the command prompt, I had DataPipe from New Jersey come up, just as the other people did. I don't have an |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | iBriaan | 9/25/11 9:06 PM | I'd also like to mention that this is not an issue with a virus. I'm having this issue on my computer and I have run a virus scan that returned negative. I also booted the computer with the issue with Linux Ubuntu and I still have the issue on Ubunt |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/25/11 9:18 PM | This is correct. Not a virus that I can tell either. Have posted a hjackthis log to a |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | A.L.L. | 9/25/11 11:26 PM | Is this happening to any Time Warner customers who are actual roadrunner subscribers, not Earthlink customers? Might help clarify who's doing the search redirects. Also, have you checked out netalyzr (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/)? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/25/11 11:45 PM | I would encourage everyone affected by this to run a netalyzr scan - but first return y |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | bk11220 | 9/26/11 6:29 AM | I'm a Time Warner nyc roadrunner subscriber and am having the same problem. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/26/11 7:09 AM | bk11220, Do you use the same DNS as the Earthlink subscribers? |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | magari | 9/26/11 8:48 AM | This problem is not coming from Google. Your search is being intercepted by Paxfire. Your ISP has hired them to hijack your search and redirect it for profit. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Hawaii_Craig | 9/26/11 11:07 AM | Getting the same from Earthlink DNS servers: 207.69.188.185, 207.69.188.186 When I run nslookup http://www.google.com in terminal I am routed to: Name: http://www.google.com Address: 64.27.117.179 Name: http://www.google.com Address: 69.25.212.24 These are the se |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 9/26/11 1:37 PM | As posted earlier in this thread you can switch to using Googles DNS servers to avoid redirection. The instructions are here: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html You could also try using https to access Google as indicated in the |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | iBriaan | 9/26/11 2:52 PM | Hey guys, As mentioned earlier I'd post up the information from the CAPTCHA page once I got it again. Here it is: Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | dmenscher | 9/26/11 4:53 PM | Thanks to everyone who has reported the issue with Earthlink users getting redirected to servers hosted at DataPipe. For those of you who are just joining this discussion, the issue is that the Earthlink servers are sending your Google searches throu |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Hawaii_Craig | 9/26/11 6:48 PM | The Earthlink issue is more widespread than to DataPipe, Inc. I live in Hawaii and my searches are being routed to Almar Networks, which is managed by Paxfire. Paxfire has defended itself by suing the lawyer and complainant in a class action lawsuit |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | astoria | 9/26/11 7:18 PM | I.m also having this problem for about 2 weeks now - i am an ordinary home user - almost every search i do is stopped by a captcha - I have no malware, only ordinary use. Why is this happening? Google is not some obscure company - the basic search fu |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | astoria | 9/26/11 7:22 PM | bytw I am a Time warner - road runner customer in NYC. Thanks |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Hawaii_Craig | 9/26/11 7:28 PM | Here's the chat transcript of my experience with Earthlink tech support. They claim to only handle email service and Time Warner controls the pipe, which is wrong, the DNS servers are Earthlink servers. At the very end you can see he gives me non-ear |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | jal1979 | 9/26/11 7:56 PM | @ Hawaii_Craig Ha! Your Earthlink chat was very similar to mine. The technician refused to answer my question about why my web traffic was intercepted, but instead kept insisting that he needed to access to my computer. So finally, I let him go on t |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Clouder56 | 9/27/11 12:25 PM | I had this problem when I set google as my homepage. I've had it as my home page for years because it loads so much faster. The problem only started in the last week or so and I traced it (I believe) to an interesting little invitation on my google s |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 9/27/11 12:43 PM | @Clouder56 Um, no. This is not a google+ issue. It's an issue with ISPs intercepting and redirecting search requests. In your case since it didn't last long it was probably just a temporary DNS server glitch that coincidentally resolved when you ch |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | BBres | 9/27/11 1:01 PM | We don't know when Earthlink started using the Paxfire redirect. It could be that Googl |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | yomark | 9/28/11 10:46 AM | Just to pipe in, I am a dial-up user, from my home computer, also with Earthlink as my provider. I have been experiencing the captcha problem (usually for only the first few searches) for the past couple of days now. I posted this same problem to the |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | yomark | 9/28/11 10:55 AM | BTW, I'm in Canoga Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, I forgot to mention. |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | Hawaii_Craig | 9/28/11 4:13 PM | I received a call from Earthlink level 2 support (call center) yesterday where I explained the problem. Halfway during the call the call disconnected or I was hung up on. Either way I didn't receive a call back. Typical poor Earthlink customer servic |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | alliehamilton | 10/2/11 11:29 AM | For now, sometimes my searches are being intercepted by Earthlink and sometimes not ( have been checking using the nslookup command). Maybe they had so many people getting capchas/complaining that they are spreading the intercepts around or just usin |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | cudiaco | 10/26/11 10:37 PM | I've been having this problem as well for nearly a month, since the beginning of October. This happens when I connect to my VPS in the US, which I use as a VPN. Since the VPS is private, I have only a few machines that are able to connect to it. A |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | LemurCatta | 10/27/11 12:01 AM | If I understand correctly, you connct through a VPN to a VPS in the US that you rent from http://burst.net? I would think that the issue is how the VPS is configured to use DNS. I'm not sure that being configured to use the Google DNS servers on your side o |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | SpiderMike | 11/24/11 9:01 AM | I've only recently started the same issue. I'm not sure what this nslooup thing is I'm supposed to do as my PC doesn't have a run prompt when I go to start. All i can say is that I'm with virgin media and when I search the IP address that's making me |
| Re: I need to fill out a CAPTCHA to search google. | TehCheezIz A Lie | 12/10/11 2:33 PM | google is becoming a turd. *Trollface* U Mad, Google? |