afoken:

I hadn't thought of using an alternate DNS server, I'll put them into my router. While I'm not a WWW guy, you'd think I would've thought of that. But I've been grousing about it for a couple years and never did. I guess everything's obvious in hindsight...

I'm running Linux at home, and it's pretty tightly locked down, so I don't think there's any malware on this box. But our ISP doeas all sorts of "magic", so I don't doubt that a transparent proxy might be in the loop. I'll check out your ideas to see if my ISP has transparent proxies, or just annoying redirects.

I wish I could give you a couple more ++!

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.