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OpenDNS Deluxe Adds Deeper Controls And Email Support
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | We’ve written many times about the benefits of pointing your router to OpenDNS instead of your ISP’s ad-shoving re-direct service. OpenDNS now offers a $US10-per-year Deluxe version that offers whitelist-only surfing, customised block pages, and one year of surfing stats. More »
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OpenDNS Protects Against The Conficker Worm
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Yesterday we offered up a guide to protecting your Windows PC from the Conficker worm, set to perhaps start doing something this week. Free net service OpenDNS is another option for anyone concerned about today’s not-so-funny happening. More »
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Chrome Speeds Up Web Page Requests With DNS Pre-Fetching
5:22AM Gina Trapani | Chrome developers describe one of the features that makes the browser speedier: DNS pre-fetching. When you visit a web page in Chrome, it looks up the IP address of all the links on page before you click on them, in some cases saving you up to a second in DNS-resolution latency time by doing the look-ups preemptively. Type about:histograms/DNS.PrefetchFoundName and about:dns into the address bar to check out your pre-fetch time savings in Chrome. Another way to speed up DNS resolution is to start using the free OpenDNS service. More »
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OpenDNS Offers DNS Vulnerability Protection
11:30PM Gina Trapani | Tech site Webmonkey advises users not sure whether or not their DNS servers are patched against a recently discovered vulnerability to switch to the excellent, free DNS service, OpenDNS. Test your DNS server for the vulnerability here and get Webmonkey’s instructions for setting up OpenDNS . (We love OpenDNS so much it was one of our best apps of 2006.) More »