Has Mozilla been hijacked?
I would be surprised if this could happen on Linux, but I think somebody has
hacked my browser.
Sometimes web pages that I have open spontaneously change to one of two
commercial sites. one of them is http://download.find.com/ I forget which one
the other is.
I have Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622
Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1
In looking around for programming contracts in the past, I have seen people post
requests for software that would hijack someone's homepage setting. What these
programs were supposed to do is set someone's homepage to a commercial site, and
prevent them from setting it back (or cause the browser to ignore the user's
preference). I get the feeling something like that has happened to me.
I would be surprised if the URL's for either of these sites were planted on
purpose by either the Mozilla or the Debian developers.
I can't figure out what is making this happen. Sometimes it seems to me that
the pages change to a new URL without me clicking anything.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mike
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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
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