How can I stop a web script chaning my M$IE home page?

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How can I stop a web script chaning my M$IE home page? Jon Smith 12-19-2004
Posted by Jon Smith on December 19, 2004, 9:15 pm
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I erroneously entered a wrong URL like www.rhn.com. This site has =
script to change M$IE home page. How can I stop this kind of web page =
from changing my M$IE home page?


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Posted by Anthony Boynes on December 19, 2004, 2:36 pm
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wrote:

>I erroneously entered a wrong URL like www.rhn.com. This site has script to
change M$IE home page. How can I stop this kind of web page from changing my
M$IE home page?


For that particular page you have to click Yes for the homepage to be
changed.


Read before clicking.....




--
Anthony Boynes


Posted by Barry Margolin on December 20, 2004, 9:44 pm
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> I erroneously entered a wrong URL like www.rhn.com. This site has script to
> change M$IE home page. How can I stop this kind of web page from changing my
> M$IE home page?

Install a spyware blocker. One of the things many of these programs do
is warn if a site tries to change any of your browser settings, like the
home page or search page.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


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