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Ummm... this also happens when you click on a link 
that calls a javascript function that sets your homepage.

look at the source for bessybug.com,
this.setHomePage('http://www.bessybug.com/');

...perhaps someone else clicked the link, or perhaps
you did it by accident?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: 'Lord Soth'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: weird IE behaviour..
> 
> 
> May have happened when you opened another webpage...maybe they asked you
> if you wanted to set bessybug.com as your homepage? Or...it could be
> someone using you as a guinea pig for an exploit? Something along these
> lines I think...or just somebody messing with you...:)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lord Soth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:34 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: weird IE behaviour..
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> 

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