[Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack

[Charles Uchu Strader]

I wonder if your URL hijack issue has to do with Verizon's new "service":

Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns

by Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.Com

November 3, 2007

Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service 
(FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get 
redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they don't 
have Verizon's search page set as their default...

link: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html