Re: M$ Updates = homepage hijacker

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From: Steve N. (me_at_here.now)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:52:43 GMT

kurttrail wrote:

> 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!"
>
Well, I've always been pretty clear about my dissatifactions and
annoyances with M$ stuff, just a bit more colorful about it this time :)
Sometimes I wouldn't use their stuff at all if I didn't have to. That
doesn't mean I do not appreciate what improvements M$ has made over
time, it just tends to get overshadowed by the crap they do.

Unfortunately, no, I didn't keep track of what the exact updates were,
there were about six of them, I tend to wait a bit before updating and
I really don't have the time to do one at a time and check the damage
report. I guess I will have to change my pratices, but the part that
really p*sses me off is that I've got over 1000 users, do you think THEY
are gonna carefully apply updates? H*ll no. So we HAVE to set them up to
do it automatically or it just won't happen. By the time they call me
with their problems there's been so many t*rds hitting the fan that you
can hardly see the blades.

Steve

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