hijacking the browser home page

[dk]

Today I ran the MS anti-spyware product, it detected two
files from the Win 2000 Resouce kit as trojans, and a file
it says was trying to hijack my browser home page. I'm not
having any problems with my home page settings, pop-ups,
etc. We use an internal intranet web page as our home
page here, that requires authentication to access the
internet. I selected the option to delete the evil
browser hijacker. MS anti-spyware changed my home page to
MSN, I had to go back in and change it to my default.
What gives MS the right to hijack my home page? You can
go in and manually set which home page it will change you
to, however this won't work to roll it out to our 550
desktops, when it hijacks our preset home page and changes
it to MSN. Internet access from our organization is for
business use only, I don't want all that MSN crap shoved
at me.

 

[Jon G]

"I selected the option to delete the evil browser hijacker. MS anti-spyware
changed my home page to MSN, I had to go back in and change it to my
default. What gives MS the right to hijack my home page?"

I could be wrong but i think it was somewhere around the time you selected
the option to delete the browser hijacker and reset the default settings...

-Jon

 

[Elaine]

"I selected the option to delete the evil browser hijacker. MS
anti-spyware changed my home page to MSN, I had to go back in and
change it to my default. What gives MS the right to hijack my home
page?"

When you clicked on "default" is when it changed to MSN. That is IEs default
home page.