Have you checked for anything odd in the hosts file on your computer?
There could be something in there that's causing the redirection. By
the way, the real www.netidentity.com site resolves to 216.10.106.149,
and going to the IP you gave shows an almost exact copy of the
www.netidentity.com site except it's missing "NetIdentity® is the
Registered Servicemark of Mailbank.com, Inc." at the bottom. So
typing www.netidentity.com into your browser gives you the fake site,
correct?

I am, however, at a loss to explain why Firefox would redirect to the
page as well, by default Firefox doesn't go to any special search page
if you mistype a URL. Let's see what other people think...

I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:14:38 -0400, Jeff <jeff (at) not_a_real_address (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> PLEASE READ ... I feel violated and need much help, if not for
> the PC, for my nerves.
>
> The PC is a WinXP box, fully patched, routinely checked with
> Spybot 1.3 and AdAware 6. I run SpywareBlaster as well. I also
> use Thunderbird 0.6 and Firefox 0.8. All other family members
> run Thunderbird on this box. IE6 has not bee removed but is
> fully patched.
>
> Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 9.0, AV file 6/25/2004 r19
> is running. (I purposely purchased the licenses at work for
> our home users also so that they WOULD stay up to date -- a
> practice I learned from Sprint a long, long time ago.)
>
> I use a Netgear FVS318 to interface to my Verizon DSL account.
>
> The events as they happened.
>
> 1. My son read his email via the web. It included e-cards.
> He read them. Doesn't remember where they took him, nor
> does he remember if he used IE6 or Firefox.
>
> 2. Long screaming session about things TO do and things NOT
> to do while on the internet. 278th time. Disabled his account.
>
> 3. Mis-typing a URL will now take me automatically to
> www.netidentity.com with the mistaken URL clearly
> identified inside. Identical results on IE6 and Firefox.
> Java and Javascript are disabled on Firefox. I leave IE6
> alone because I use it when I absolutely must go to some
> bogus activex site, oh, and windowsupdate. But I don't use
> it otherwise. I always use Firefox.
>
> URLs that caused this include: mapblast, mapquest, abc, def
> ... through xyz.
>
> Please note: I had typed "mapblast" but had hit Enter rather
> than Ctrl-Enter, by mistake. The URLs entered are literally
> those listed, just the word.
>
> They are then transformed to http://mapblast/
>
> 4. SAV CE, Spybot, AdAware, SypwareBlaster were all checked for
> updates and the entire system was scanned. Nothing found.
>
> ** My immediate thought was that Network Solutions was up to thier
> ** old tricks with it's Site Finder business. A quick check of
> ** another PC in the house eliminated that.
>
> 5. I checked my syslogs and NULL routed the IP address being used
> to access www.netidentity.com. The same page comes up sans the
> graphics and the flash. The web page is still there though, just
> looking sad. Another check of the syslogs brings up 64.15.175.5
> as generating the pages, an open proxy.
>
> 6. Also ran HiJackThis and went through ALL of the items on it.
> Nada. Couldn't find the IP addresses or domain names in the
> registry. I also ran them in reverse notation. Nada.
>
> 7. Checked my network settings to make certain that some new DNS
> server wasn't stuck in. Nope, still set to use the Netgear box.
> Put 4 different DNS servers in -- still get that stupid site.
>
> 8. That was all at lunchtime. Haven't had a chance to run netstat
> or Ethereal to gain any additional clues.
>
> ZOIKS!!!
>
> The PC is off. But NOT knowing what is going on is driving me insane.
>
> So while I <ahem> work this afternoon, I thought I would see if any
> of this sounds, smells or <insert fav sense here) like anything that
> anyone has seen before!
>
> Jeff
>
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