Potentially nasty little web gothcha !!!

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Post #118,317 by dmarker 9/20/03 7:39:58 AM Reply	Potentially nasty little web gothcha !!! I wanted to go to www.babblefish.com but typed in www.bablefish.com & up came a web hosting page [link\|http://www.megago.com/\|http://www.megago.com/] Then other windows started openeing. I shutdown MSIE (what I use on this 1 server) but each time I started it up, up came megago website. Did a restart smae thing. So then I went to control panel & options & looked for what was set as my default home page - this ever so friendly site had altered the config. After resetting it back to my normal all seems ok. I was not amused. I wnder how many people not familiar with default web page setting get caught by this kind of crap. Doug
Post #118,336 by Andrew Grygus 9/20/03 2:46:20 PM Reply	Most of them. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #118,339 by FuManChu 9/20/03 4:37:10 PM Reply	Worse thingies. Do some research on "Browser Helper Objects". Nasty critters. Oh, and FYI, it's [link\|http://babelfish.altavista.com\|http://babelfish.altavista.com] -- has been for some time. "There's a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things." Douglas Adams

Potentially nasty little web gothcha !!! - (dmarker) - (2) - Sept. 20, 2003, 07:39:58 AM EDT

Most of them. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 20, 2003, 02:46:20 PM EDT

Worse thingies. - (FuManChu) - Sept. 20, 2003, 04:37:10 PM EDT

Save your piss. Seriously.
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