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Securedns.com redirects in Opera
I'm not sure what is causing this. When I try to visit a web site I get redirected to nxd.securedns.dns.com by Opera according to the redirect page. It happens seemingly at random. I even came to the Opera site, got the home page, but kept getting redirects when I clicked the forums tab. I tried Firefox, it doesn't happen with that. Interestingly, Firefox is open now, at the same time as Opera, and since running Firefox in tandem, Opera is no longer redirecting me off the sites (at least it hasn't so far). Has anyone experienced this before or know how to prevent it? I've tried doing a DNS flush through the command prompt but it doesn't have any effect. Nothing shows up on an antivirus sweep either. It only started doing this yesterday and it's doing my head in. Anyone????
The page may be generated by Opera, but that is because the server that sent the redirect instruction did not send a web page.
The most likely reason for seeing a redirect page is that the server was sending you into a continuous redirect loop, which Opera will terminate after about 20 redirects.
SecureDNS is a DNS service provided by Comodo. You may have configured your computer to use it, or something on your network is hooked into it, possibly including your ISP.
If this suddenly started, then it is quite possible that Comodo changed something. Perhaps you should ask them?
The most likely reason for seeing a redirect page is that the server was sending you into a continuous redirect loop, which Opera will terminate after about 20 redirects.
SecureDNS is a DNS service provided by Comodo. You may have configured your computer to use it, or something on your network is hooked into it, possibly including your ISP.
If this suddenly started, then it is quite possible that Comodo changed something. Perhaps you should ask them?
Sincerely,
Yngve N. Pettersen
Yngve N. Pettersen
Thanks, I've been trying to get back here to answer before now, but it was redirecting me and blocking the site. Comodo's own site was blocked too.
I checked my network connections properties and found the Internet Protocol settings were set up to use DNS settings 8.26.56.26 and 156.154.70.22
I ticked the 'obtain DNS Server automatically' box and that seems to have done the trick.
I did a virus sweep with Avast and it picked up an object in an Intelliremote folder. This is a program I've had on the computer for a long time (it lets me use my iPhone as a remote to operate VLC player etc) so I don't think the virus has been there all along, Avast would have found it before. I had tried the Comodo anti-virus program about 3 weeks ago when Avast was playing up and hogging system resources after a virus sweep, it just wasn't shutting off afterwards for some reason. I didn't get on with it and uninstalled it after a day, switching to Avira instead. This was OK as an AV program but scans were so quick I was wondering if it was really checking everything thoroughly so gave Avast another go. It's been working OK since I reinstalled it and the problems had only just started occurring so I never even considered a possible link to the Comodo program.
I still don't know if this was a DNS hijack put in place when Comodo was installed or whether the virus Avast removed had hijacked the settings. I suspect it's from the Comodo install, which is worrying as quite a few people seem to rate Comodo as a good anti-virus program. More worrying was that Opera browser seemed to be getting the problems before it affected any of the other browsers. It did eventually affect FF and IE too, but they were ploughing through the redirects long after Opera had ground to a halt. I tried to come back and tell you this, but it was redirecting me whenever I tried to go to the Opera forum - home page no problem, but as soon as I tried to link through to here, redirected.
I checked my network connections properties and found the Internet Protocol settings were set up to use DNS settings 8.26.56.26 and 156.154.70.22
I ticked the 'obtain DNS Server automatically' box and that seems to have done the trick.
I did a virus sweep with Avast and it picked up an object in an Intelliremote folder. This is a program I've had on the computer for a long time (it lets me use my iPhone as a remote to operate VLC player etc) so I don't think the virus has been there all along, Avast would have found it before. I had tried the Comodo anti-virus program about 3 weeks ago when Avast was playing up and hogging system resources after a virus sweep, it just wasn't shutting off afterwards for some reason. I didn't get on with it and uninstalled it after a day, switching to Avira instead. This was OK as an AV program but scans were so quick I was wondering if it was really checking everything thoroughly so gave Avast another go. It's been working OK since I reinstalled it and the problems had only just started occurring so I never even considered a possible link to the Comodo program.
I still don't know if this was a DNS hijack put in place when Comodo was installed or whether the virus Avast removed had hijacked the settings. I suspect it's from the Comodo install, which is worrying as quite a few people seem to rate Comodo as a good anti-virus program. More worrying was that Opera browser seemed to be getting the problems before it affected any of the other browsers. It did eventually affect FF and IE too, but they were ploughing through the redirects long after Opera had ground to a halt. I tried to come back and tell you this, but it was redirecting me whenever I tried to go to the Opera forum - home page no problem, but as soon as I tried to link through to here, redirected.