My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

DNS Hijacking is a major issue in the connected world. Every unique instance you type an address into your address bar your internet-connected device makes a request to a DNS server to get the actual ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

The F-Secure Router Checker is a free and instant way to see if your router has potentially been hijacked by criminals. When you type www.thewindowsclub.com in your browser address bar, your computer ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS benchmark tool to find the fastest for you. Consider DNS providers like Google, ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The FBI will be closing the DNSChanger network on Monday, after which thousands worldwide are expected to no longer be able to access the Internet. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

I'm just starting to try and make my job a bit easier at work and I am trying to create simple scripts for my more mundane tasks. One such task is setting up and configure DNS zones on our two ...