[dba-Tech] DoSearches.com?

There is almost invariably a checkbox on one of the installation screens which is checked by 
default.  You have to watch for them very carefully when installing anything these days.

-- 
Stuart

On 19 Oct 2013 at 4:53, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> 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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> Arthur
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