OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..

[Baron Munchausen]

The stories about how persistant and ingenious these spyware/adware/hijackware programs can be are getting quite amazing. I've heard about how they install processes to watch themselves and re-install, or hide 'bombs' all over your system in hopes of causing re-infection. I'm glad I've always surfed in 'paranoid' mode with a browser filter/proxy between me and the net. Now with Mozilla instead of IE I'm a bit safer, but being Online is still getting scarier every day. I'm very much afraid that this chaos will provide an excuse for the government to step in and regulate everything, ruining our nice 'free' Internet.

[ July 05, 2004, 17:35: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]