Re: M$ Updates = homepage hijacker

From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknownuniverse.org)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:28:08 -0400

Steve Nielsen wrote:

> Security updates to XP and IE *is* spyware/adware when my blank IE
> homepage gets hijacked to frikkin www.msn.com!!! Took me 3 attempts at
> setting it bank to a blank page and finally worked when I deleted
> cooties and temp * offline i'net files, exited and restarted IE.
>
> What a pain! Don't we have ENOUGH problems with spyware, tojans, worms
> and viruses as it is? Thanks a lot Micro$lop! Maybe M$ purposefully
> left holes in IE and the OS so THEY can exploit them with THEIR
> advertising and even do so under the guise of Automatic Upchucks!
>
> Steve

ROFL! You've been hanging around me too long! :)

Seriously, do you know which update did it? Because that is really lame of
MS, but they are the Original Homepage Hijackers, after all, so it's not all
that surprising that the leopard hasn't changed its spots. MS is definitely
not a company that consumers can trust.

"Trustworthy Computing." "Bah! Humbug!" 

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