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Posted by Tumbleweed on 12/08/05 17:57
"The Thing" <TheThingNOSPAM@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:qd_lf.2626$Ms6.1378@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Before i start, and to save you having to type it, it's for my father, and
> he doesn't want to change to firefox...But thank you for suggesting it..
>
> His history, temp internet files, autocomplete items, and even the
> drop-down address bar keep wiping....
>
> Everytime he shuts a browser window, whatever he had done in that window
> is gone...No history of it, nothing...
>
> I've checked all the obvious stuff, it's set to keep 10 days worth of
> history, autocomplete is on, but i just don't know anything else it could
> be...I'm worried it may be a virus or trojan, that's doing it, but what do
> i know...
>
> My first thought was that, as my brother-in-law uses the computer
> regularly, has he set it up so that it won't keep a history...Not that i'm
> suggesting he's up to anything....;-)
>
> Can anyone suggest anything...
>
> Help, much appreciated, cos he's starting to do my 'ead in....
>
Now I know what doctors feel like when someone with cancer carries on
smoking. Give your father a slap and tell him to use Firefox,and if he wont
tell him he's a stubborn old git and you arent going to help m him, any more
than you'd nip out to the shops for some fags for someone just diagnosed
with lung cancer.
Chances are he's got one of many browser hijacks, (some of which are close
to impossible to get rid of), and if he's got one chances are he'll get
another one at soem time. Is he running some decent adware/spyware, at
least lavasoft and M$ antispyware? He should be, whatever browser he is
using.
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Tumbleweed
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