anti hijacks home page. what else?

[Ron Jeffries]

After running the scan and so on, the software offered me
the opportunity to set a whole bunch of pages back to
what microsoft considers the default. Like, for example,
my default IE startup page, which is emphatically NOT
MSN. I declined the offer, but the change had already
been made.

There are about 25 total pages that it sets; default
search items and so on. It apparently doesn't let you
leave it the way it was.

The software needs not to recognize google.com as a
malware home page or search engine, and similar things.
Next thing will it be removing Java development IDEs and
replacing them with Visual Studio?

Just teasing, but really, it went too far in this case.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Ron,
The default set in IE for the home page is msn. Before you tell it to go to
default however, you can pop in whatever page you wish.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi Ron,
The default set in IE for the home page is msn. Before you tell it to go to
default however, you can pop in whatever page you wish.

Ron Chamberlin

Hi Ron. Two things:

First of all, I didn't tell it to execute, I clicked to
back up on the top menu to get to the top of the
sequence: I never approved the settings and it reset
anyway.

Second, there are lots of items in that list, of which
the home page is just one. There's no pulldown, so I'd
have to memorize a zillion settings, and type them in, to
get set back the way I was.

Third (I lied about the two), it would make more sense to
explain the proposed changes. I really don't think it's
all that dangerous to have Google as my home page. Is
it?

Thanks,

 

[Bill Sanderson]

The UI in this area is apparently quite confusing--it has definitely
confused me.

You can change the same settings, as far as I can see, in two places:
Tools, advanced tools, browser hijack settings restore

Which labels the settings clearly and makes it pretty easy to change them to
your preferred defaults--particularly the start page and start page (all
users)

and, tools, advanced tools, system explorers, IE Settings. Which has the
same stuff but less well labelled and explained--first and third items
appear identical, for example.