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homepage change

Tivoli · 2004-02-05 03:38:32

opened up explorer for the first time since i intalled firebird and my home page was set to this http://www.spa.org/piracy/copyright/net.asp now i'm scared

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05-02-2004 4:38am

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Tivoli

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opened up explorer for the first time since i intalled firebird

and my home page was set to this

http://www.spa.org/piracy/copyright/net.asp

now i'm scared

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#2 05-02-2004 12:39pm
Winters

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Get yourself a spybot checker such as this one and it will remove any spyware etc. that may be on your PC and maybe changing your homepage.

Also, someone while browsing may have hit yes to one of those "Would you like to change your hompage to ..." windows. So it may have just been an accient. Nevertheless, install the spybot checker above and do a full spyware scan. That program can also lock your homepage so it cannot be changed. Useful stuff

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#3 05-02-2004 2:14pm
Tivoli

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will do, thanks

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#4 05-02-2004 3:53pm
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And the moral of the story is; Never go back to IE:D.

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#5 05-02-2004 8:24pm
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Originally posted by OfflerCrocGod
And the moral of the story is; Never go back to IE:D.

Agreed, use Firebird or Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org

say it together everyone.....IE SUCKS!!

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#6 05-02-2004 8:27pm
Tivoli

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Originally posted by Cabaal
Agreed, use Firebird or Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org

say it together everyone.....IE SUCKS!!

mate go read my original post again

i see you have a very similar post in the bin

i need IE for windowsupdate.com

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#7 05-02-2004 9:04pm
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You can get Windows itself to notify you of new updates.
Well on XP anyway.

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#8 05-02-2004 9:42pm
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I wouldn't worry too much about it mukki. If I was in a hypothetical friend's house and that hypothetical friend had hypothetical pirated software, games or mp3s I might set the homepage there to be funny.

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#9 05-02-2004 9:45pm
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Re: original post. The change has nothing to do with Firebird, unless you downloaded it from an unofficial source. It's purely coincidence you noticed around the same time.

Anyway GO MOZ/variants !:D

It is what it's.

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#10 06-02-2004 11:49am
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Originally posted by mukki
i need IE for windowsupdate.com

IE is part of windows whether you like it or not. Just install another browser and only use IE when you want to do an update. Simple!

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