Sites blocked???

Every time I try to go to an "adult" site I'm directed to a page: http://block.opendns.com that gives me the following message: Site blocked. redtube.com is not allowed on this network.
This happens on safari 3 and now 4. Another Mac on this network can access the pages fine so its not my ISP doing the blocking, what must have changed on my setup and how do I take the block off?

Thanks for any help.

Mark

Macbook 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Airport Express

Posted on Mar 5, 2009 4:21 AM

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Mar 5, 2009 5:35 AM in response to markbau

No, someone would have had to open your Network preference panel and changed the DNS settings. Open your Network preference panel, click on your active connection (usually Built-in-Ethernet), click on Advanced, click on DNS, and tell us what you find there.

Since you mentioned "adult" sites it is also possible you picked up a known trojan horse that alters your DNS entries. But instead of blocking your access to adult sites it's function is usually to force you to them. This trojan horse would have been disguised as a video player or codec. You would have downloaded it and installed it thinking it was needed to view a video. See this article from MacWorld...

http://www.macworld.com/article/60823/2007/10/trojanhorse.html

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Mar 5, 2009 4:44 AM in response to markbau

From the url you posted it appears you are using OpenDNS as your DNS server. There are a number of posters on these forums who are always recommending people change their DNS servers. Did you or someone else with administrator privileges change the settings? Open DNS (this is not software on your system. It is a company that provides DNS services) also allows filtering or blocking. Do you control your network or does someone else?

Mar 5, 2009 4:56 AM in response to lkrupp

I am the administrator on this computer and on my little home airport xpress network, but I haven't changed anything for a while (well I'm on safari 4 as of an hour ago but it was happening before that) how is it that I've gotten onto to this open dns? and how do I get off it?

Just realised, it might have started after the Apple java and security updates that I installed yesterday, would that do it?

Mark

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