https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=612
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Den Tracy
Friday, 30 January 2004, 10:42 PM

Switched over to Mozilla Firebird
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I've had it with IE whatever version.
Yesterday after I found the P2 Asimo stuff, I was looking
for something with Google. The usual dead sites showed up
and I thought nothing of it.
Last night I went to look for something and my homepage
was redirected to an unwanted search engine. I can't get
rid of it, even with spyware eliminating software.
If I save the homepage and log out  as the current user and
log in again, the homepage is always redirected to the stupid
search engine. I have done everything possible, even getting
a service pack upgrade from Microsoft, but it is still there.
I eliminated or moved suspect files to another folder, but it
still exists.
I am going to search the entire drive for some specific byte patterns and 
find out what file that thing sits in.

I downloaded Mozilla and I think I will kiss that IE shit good-bye
along with some other things.
Mozilla has a built in popup blocker and is extremely secure.
It works fine here and elsewhere.   :D/


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Landman
Friday, 30 January 2004, 11:09 PM


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Den, its a registry edit. usually software called hijack this will repair that for you.

see the attachment in the next post


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Landman
Friday, 30 January 2004, 11:12 PM

Re: Switched over to Mozilla Firebird
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try this :)

you will have to unzip it, the extension .exe is not allowed. (for good reason I bet)

click the config button to set the default search engines.....


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Den Tracy
Saturday, 31 January 2004, 01:11 AM


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Thanks Landman, that did the trick.

A line like "Run regedit -s sys.reg"  was writing to the registry to hijack the homepage.
It saved me a lot of time looking around.
I also found some .hta files which is another popular hijacking method.


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Tormie
Saturday, 31 January 2004, 06:03 AM


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Thank you Landman ! It's useful !

(And Den  [-X  [-X  [-X , If you spent your nights on PORN SITES this could happen...   [-(  [-(  [-( ... shame shame shame.... )


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Deviant_Viking
Saturday, 31 January 2004, 12:28 PM


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Switched to mozilla not too long ago, after having been an IE man for years.
Go mozilla!  :bigrinnin:


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Den Tracy
Saturday, 31 January 2004, 02:47 PM


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[-X 
Porn sites ? 8-[  8-[ 
Me ?  :whistle:  :whistle:  :whistle: 
 :-#  :-#  :-# 
I don't look at such things... :^o 
 :prrr: