Is just me or have the ever noxious Maxnet just hijacked google.com?

They now insert a pop up advert and redirect to google.co.th

In case it matters I am using Maxnet Indy from Pattaya

Have to change my orignal post - you are right. They use Google for their ads. Did not see it because of my ad-blockers.

This post has been edited by Johnxxx: 2009-05-29 18:23:19

Also gets get redirected to http://moviebuffet.maxnet.co.th/google.html

The worst part is that I'm trying to reach finance.google.com
I get the popup and then redirected to www.google.co.th

This post has been edited by PoorSucker: 2009-05-29 18:21:58

Seems a bit unlikely to be google, the pop up advert is for Maxnet Movie Buffet 99

This post has been edited by melonf: 2009-05-29 18:22:34

I changed my message from before - you are right. My ad-blockers did not show the ?great? Maxnet ad.

I disabled the ad blocker and i get them on every search done from the google search bar in firefox. This is totally inappropriate behavior for a paid service.

I'm going to notify google that Maxnet is trying to make it appear that google is inserting pop up ads into user searches.

This company gets worse by the day, my service is barely usable any more and now they are inserting ads into my browsing??

Even better, when i tried to find an address to contact them i found that their site uses flash for navigation (a major web design no no) and doesn't even work with flash player v10. I had to use a virtual machine just to get a contact address for these incompetent pricks.

I recommend everyone fires off an few angry emails to icare@ttt.co.th and ism@ttt.co.th.

</angry ranting>

Same result on Maxnet here in Cha am. I turned off the popup, but the $%^$# thing insists on defaulting to .co.th. I can't get to my webmaster tools. I can get to Adwords = https pages.

I wonder if this is happening on True or TOT?

ADDED: I tried to find a way to contact google but all I get is links to their forum, etc .. and those are on .com so it redirects.

This post has been edited by klikster: 2009-05-29 18:57:18

same problem here!

Try to open google.com, then I
get redirected to http://moviebuffet.maxnet.co.th/google.html, and then I
get redirected to http://www.google.co.th

Exactly the same thing happens when I click on the link "Go to Google.com" on google.co.th

Outrageous in my opinion, can't wait to see that happening when trying to open thaivisa.com

They are shaping internet traffic and redirecting to their site which launches a popup.

Ex: google.com launches this popup moviebuffet.maxnet.co.th/google_splash.php

This is happening to other sites such as hotmail.com Some of my custom google toolbar search are broken as a result because of the redirection. IE and Firefox have popups blocked by default so they aren't going to get as much traffic as they hoped for. They might as well just redirect every url to their self promotion thing.

Here is a Thai thread about it:
tinyurl.com/thaimaxnet



This post has been edited by llp: 2009-05-29 19:00:48

Holy shit, can this get any more ridiculous???

1) My email to maxnet tech support bounced back! i sent it to the address from their site, icare@ttt.co.th.



2) Closing the ads causes firefox to crash now.

Thank you for saying that, I wasn't sure if that was a pure coincidence or my computer or something.


I just had tech support on the line, guess what the guy said (who spoke perfect English)?

He said: "I can open google.com and also finance.google.com"

I said: "That's impossible"

He replied:"No, it's because I am not using maxnet"

Now it has outright broken google! All searches just take me to the google home pages. No results at all any more.

What a joke...

EDIT: I bet you can circumvent this by using OpenDNS.

This post has been edited by niller74: 2009-05-29 19:20:13

This seems to be the topic du jour... I've been getting this for the last hour. I've already contacted phone support, but of course, they don't acknowledge there is any problem at all.

I've heard of internet providers redirecting traffic from illegal sites (censorship), but I've never heard of one redirecting traffic from the world's most popular site and using it to advertise some stupid promotion.

I was pretty pissed off when I got back home to see this was happening to me. I thought I caught a virus. Is this going to last? My google related tools don't work because of this crap.

The tech support I talked to said he had several calls already about this and is trying to get it sorted, but he is in a call center, the real admins are somewhere else, so he has to call them etc.

I told him that this will be in the news for sure, as there are many people who really need to use the google.com sites and subdomains etc for business and are crippled now because of this.

He said he will do all he can to get this sorted out.

TiT ffs


p.s. Johnxxx, you are wrong. maxnet hijacked google, just read my first post and you see what happens, or try yourself to open this link (if you got maxnet) http://finance.google.com

This post has been edited by jbhh: 2009-05-29 19:24:46

Also seeing this redirect at yahoo.com >> http://m.www.yahoo.com/

I have a feeling that maxnet is going to pay dearly for this

Wow.

And just today Maxnet started advertising outside my condo as they finally have service here, and I was thinking about switching from True which has actually been VERY good to me. No way would I even consider it now.

I would have been going with Premier, anybody notice this with Premier or are you all on Indy?

I was just looking at the thai thread about this, Maxnet is denying it and telling customers that it caused by a virus on their machine.

I don't think you can blame this on TV .. and Maxnet does indeed seem to have created this problem.

Haha, that make it even more hilarious. Which company would ever admit to be infected by virus? These people are just so stupid they could not make up a better excuse.

Don't leave true. They are the best of the 3 major isp in my personal experience...I know since I have all three providers. I have premier and it is happening to me. And so far I don't see a difference in services or quality between premier and indy. Maxnet better pull that shit down so I can use my google again. My Yahoo is fine though.

I just reported maxnet's IP hijack to Google by using a ssh-tunneled proxy in order to avoid the redirect. Google's IP hijacking report pages can be found by searching "Report IP problems google" woth google itself. I suggest you do the same, as I'm sure folks at Google will have far more weight on the matter than individuals calling to maxnet's tech support and I reckon they will not be very happy by anybody degrading the level of their service.

Agree!