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New FREE Service to speed web pages, block ads & phishing

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Rover:
This is way cool.  A nice idea and it works pretty well.

http://news.com.com/DNS+service+promises+safer%2C+faster+browsing/2100-7355_3-6092980.html?tag=nefd.top

OpenDNS says its free address-lookup service makes Web sites load faster, and that it blocks malicious, data-thieving phishing schemes and other threats. Furthermore, the service corrects obvious typos in URLs, sending people to the site they intended to visit, it says.

To pay for it, though, the company serves up ads and a search page, instead of an error page, if the user enters a Web address that doesn't exist or can't be corrected. The approach is similar one used in an unpopular VeriSign service called Site Finder, which was pulled soon after its launch in 2003. -CNet News
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http://www.opendns.com

mouser:
interesting idea..

kimmchii:
thank you, i will give it a try.

app103:
That search page, when a page won't load or can't be found, is the most annoying feature (and probably the only annoying feature I have found so far) in the AOL Explorer browser.

jgpaiva:
I guess this service could be almost perfect. Using opera, one could blobk the address of the page and wouldn't get it again! :D
(or would it be that that address page is not product of a redirection but has the address one typed?)

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