What gets me is, I understand what’s happening. I resent getting my ISP’s clumsy search page (yahoo affiliated) instead of the page I have set in my google settings — when the name doesn’t resolve from the address bar. It’s just a cheap search engine hijacking angle.
Then, after some research I find out how to disable it, but it fails and say’s the settings are locked.
I think I’m going to irritate some Charter communications customer support technicians today.
You installed their software when they told you that you needed it to connect to their network, right? Go into your Control Panel > Programs and Features and remove the Charter software.
The browser hijacks are installed as part of a media/advertising package. As an IT engineer of 20 years, I can tell you without a doubt that you do not need any software to use their network.
I put in the address 209.157.64.200 and the site came up but it wouldn’t let me log in.
A couple of years ago anytime I put any website in Suddenlink brought up their search engine. I kept disabling it but it didn’t work. I got so mad I kept typing “f*** you suddenlink” on their search engine and it finally went away.
I was unable to access on southwest airlines wifi yesterday.’ Started working the instant i landed and disconnected