How to remove the dlinksearch browser search hijack

For the last few weeks all the machines on my home network are having the same problem whilst browsing the internet. When the user enters an invalid URL in the browser address bar, instead of the default browser behaviour, the request is sent to http://www1.dlinksearch.com/. As far as I can tell this is all machines and all browsers.

It is so consistent I am wondering whether it has anything to do with our router. We use a DLink DIR-655 router so maybe the clue is in the name :)

Anyhow, I cannot figure out how to disable/remove the offending behaviour. I've checked hosts files, spyware, AV etc. etc. Anybody have any ideas?

Paul

P.S. Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this type of question. I'm a bit stuck

Solution 1:

Uncheck Advanced DNS in the router internet setup. This will take care of it. I had this problem with my DLink router before.

Solution 2:

On my Dir-645, the advanced DNS settings was found under setup > parental control (after an hour of hide and seek)