We had an issue with our ISP, somehow the IP Block was listed for the
area that is served in .de in google's DB, when it saw us coming from
the IP range it always put us to that site regardless of who was there.
We tried it on company computers, my laptop, which worked fine on my AIR
Card, but going through there ISP immediately .de

We finally got google to verify with our ISP their info and have not had
a problem since.  Go figure.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE7 redirecting to Google.de

On Feb 11, 2008 3:03 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone seen any spyware that does this? IE7 is set to open up a
> google.com page as its first tab among several. For a split second,
the
> address bar shows google.com, then it changes to google.de and
displays that
> site.

  Check the language settings on the laptop.  If the user's locale is
set to "German", Google will recognize that from the HTTP headers the
browser sends, and redirect to the German Google site.  DE =
Deutschland, the native name for Germany.  Also check if the user has
a Google account that has a similar locale setting.

On Feb 11, 2008 3:31 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gmail also redirects to Google Mail.

  As I recall, somebody in Germany (or maybe it was the EU) already
had a trademark on "Gmail", so in Germany, it is officially called
"Google Mail".

-- Ben

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