[dba-Tech] DoSearches.com?

Hi Arthur:

I have been doing so much of that as of late for friends, family and other businesses that it has become second nature. It seems that every Windows third-party application you download defaults to taking over your browser. Some more legitimate companies have a switch that can toggle off the new browser menus but many don't and then it is back to manually resetting the properties and most users don't have a clue what is happening. 

To be honest it is becoming a real PITA and I think it should be illegal.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:30:47 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] DoSearches.com?

Jim,

The URL that Stuart posted worked perfectly. It never would have occurred
to me that all you have to do is change the shortcut by adding an argument
to effectively hijack the program. I don't know why it never occurred to
me, since I have often created shortcuts for Access to pass arguments like
"decompile". But in this case I didn't think of it.

Arthur


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Arthur:
>
> The would be a wasted effect. Gmail is unrelated to Chrome other than both
> were made by the same company.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 4:53:33 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] DoSearches.com?
>
> Somewhere, somehow, something changed by gmail setup such that my preferred
> set of tabs is ignored and this awful thing called DoSearche.com has
> hijacked my Chrome startup. I hate this bloody thing! I've looked in
> Chrome's settings and the "Open current pages" setting is as it should be,
> but somehow somewhere this damned DoSearches thing hijacks Chrome, and to
> make matters it has a popup in French that keeps asking me whether I want
> to apply for a green card.
>
> I guess that I could un-install Chrome and then re-install it afterwards,
> and see what happens. Any suggestions before I go that route?
>
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