bigc73542
March 16th, 2004, 06:38 PM
Link to story: http://www.nwherald.com/spider/NWH/news/281867570130135.html
-{ Quote: "Browser hijackers can be stopped
The ongoing Internet security freakout for anyone using Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system keeps getting worse.
The online world gets a steady stream of warning labels slapped on it ? for such things as downloads, e-mail attachments and instant messaging file transfers.
The latest involves World Wide Web pages.
"Browser hijacking" is as bad as it gets. Like the Blaster worm, this form of trickery can take over your software silently and invisibly.
Typically, users discover what has happened only after the hijacking: Their Internet Explorer home page and Web searches have been switched to strange sites, a flock of pop-up windows follow them around, their lists of favorite sites have become a catalog of porn purveyors.
None of these changes can be undone without tedious debugging.
.
.
." }-
-{ Quote: "Browser hijackers can be stopped
The ongoing Internet security freakout for anyone using Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system keeps getting worse.
The online world gets a steady stream of warning labels slapped on it ? for such things as downloads, e-mail attachments and instant messaging file transfers.
The latest involves World Wide Web pages.
"Browser hijacking" is as bad as it gets. Like the Blaster worm, this form of trickery can take over your software silently and invisibly.
Typically, users discover what has happened only after the hijacking: Their Internet Explorer home page and Web searches have been switched to strange sites, a flock of pop-up windows follow them around, their lists of favorite sites have become a catalog of porn purveyors.
None of these changes can be undone without tedious debugging.
.
.
." }-