8th February 2012

Rant:D-Link Hijacks Your Internets – In FIRMWARE

Ubersource points out the D-Link router/modem firmware forces you to go their website and receive spamvertising about security software. You have to login to the router, go Advanced and OPT OUT to stop this.

This is very poor practice. Opt-out is NEVER ACCEPTABLE, and using a piece of hardware that is fully paid for to perform the spam attack is disgusting.

No more D-Link for me. I trust Cisco has no plans for Linksys to do the same – this is a revolting form of upselling.


D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks your Internets

From Slashdot

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Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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  • http://blog.ioshints.info Ivan Pepelnjak

    All your Internet are belong to us :) )

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      and you must pay for it !