Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Oct 19 14:20:49 CDT 2013
Hi Stuart: Agreed...but few standard users seem aware of this until its too late. There has to be a real education campaign among most users as they appear blissfully unaware of the dangers or even the checkbox. Some apps even have a button that says something like; "Decline the install, yes or no". It is not easy to know whether you are saying "no" to what you have downloaded or is it referring to "extras". The last computer I worked on had two malware applications that had to be removed, partly manually and two browsers that had to be cleaned up. It was a real mess. Considering the client had just over looked the checkbox, I suspect made to be confusing, as they were actually looking for it and the product they were downloading was coming from a supposed well known legitimate site, they were more than surprised. The malware was attached to the download by the actual site operations. Very bad. I would like to see those sites banned until they clean up their act. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 4:15:34 AM Subject: Re: [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? > > > > -- > > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > -- > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com