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| Thread ID: 29846 | 2003-02-04 07:40:00 | Xupiter - Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers | Susan B (19) | Press F1 |
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| 118268 | 2003-02-04 07:40:00 | "It's the most evil thing on the Internet, according to some of its victims. But it's not a virus, a scam or a raunchy porn site. It's a browser toolbar that some swear is doing "drive-by downloads" -- installing itself without users' permission -- then taking over their systems and making it impossible to uninstall." "Xupiter is an Internet Explorer toolbar program. Once active in a system, it periodically changes users' designated homepages to xupiter.com, redirects all searches to Xupiter's site, and blocks any attempts to restore the original browser settings." Sounds like a nasty piece of work we can all do without. Read more here (www.wired.com). |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 118269 | 2003-02-04 08:39:00 | Thanks for the link susan, certainly does sound like something we can do without. But I really wanted to thank you for the link because the page directed me to an article on Yahoo and how they have "done a hotmail" on us and changed our marketing preferences to yes - and low and behold when i checked mine they were all changed to "yes" i want offers etc... So that was a bonus bit of info. For anybody else who wants to check out that article on Yahoo Preferences being changed by them its Here (www.wired.com) Thanks susan :-) |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 118270 | 2003-02-04 08:41:00 | This has been addressed fairly well on previous posts Susan. One of which is Here ( pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) |
Jim B (153) | ||
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