I've had that behaviour several times with IE on different sites. Appearantly those sites are using some vbscript/jscript/activex control to set your home page..... I, like you, never had to give any permission nor was I asked whether it was ok to change it
regards On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:33, Lord Soth stuffed this into my mailbox: > Hi all, > > Just tonight I was surfing the web looking for stuff when I noticed that > when > I opened a new browser window (I'm using IE 5), the homepage was not the > > one I usually have. > I set my homepage to be http://directory.google.com/ in my internet > properties, > and then I found that it starts on http://www.bessybug.com/. > I checked the internet properties for it, and it has changed there! > > Next I noticed in my favourites I have two new bookmarks called TEST1 > and > TEST2, which also point to that site. > > Does any1 have any idea what this is or what it is supposed to be ? > Anything like this happened to anyone here ? > > thanks in advance, > LS
