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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:00 AM
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FUCK Yahoo! Anyone else getting their browser redirected???
Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 10:03 AM by KzooDem
For the past two days, when I open my Internet browser (which is set automatically to Yahoo!) the Yahoo! main page comes up for a brief second and then I'm redirected to the Yahoo! Mail page. I have to hit the "back" button on my browser to get back to the main Yahoo! page.

WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS. I have used Yahoo! for years, but if this is the shit they are pulling to try to hawk their email service, fuck 'm, and hello Google.

Anyone else have this happening to them??
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:02 AM
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1. Not me. I'm also on Mozilla.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:03 AM
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2. Why not just set your browser to open with DU as your
home page?
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Clintmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:18 AM
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3. That's what I was going to say...
And that's what I do! Open Firefox...THERE'S DU!
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:32 AM
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4. No
I have Mozilla as the home page, and when I open Yahoo, http://www.yahoo.com/ it stays.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:40 AM
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5. Make sure you don't have a virus
I use to have my homepage redirect and it turned out I had some virus/spyware in there fixing it to do that
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:51 AM
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6. I don't think it's a hijacker virus, unless Yahoo! is doing the hijacking!
Unless, it's hijacking to another site that looks like the Yahoo! Mail site and is trying to entice you to sign in to capture your password.

I just ran Norton Virus on Monday and everything was clean. Hmmm...guess I'll have to run it again.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:06 PM
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7. Google Ad-aware and use that
Ad aware is spyware and that was what caused my homepage to switch to something else.

It's best to be safe and Ad-aware is a great anti-spyware program.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:39 PM
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8. "Ad aware is spyware..."
You mean 'Adware', don't you? 'AdAware' is the lavasoft program that removes adware and spyware.

OP, check the home page entry in your tool/options thingy to see if it's Yahoo.com only or if it has a bunch of crap following it
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:40 PM
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9. It's the Lavasoft stfuff
Thanks for clearing it up for me!
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