David Smith wrote: > Hi people. okay so over the last week I noticed when some of the company > PC's I manage opened Internet Explorer, there was MS pitching a download of > IE 8. Not a huge surprise at first, but later I started to wonder about a > few things, most importantly, how in the heck did they do this? The PC's in > question had non-MS sponsored homepages ( most of them were google.com, > actually ) but somehow they managed to get their product pimped front and > center, over riding the set homepages on all these PC's. I looked at the > firewall logs and didn't see anything goofy. The PC's in question were a mix > of SP2 and SP3. The IE app was versions 6 and a handle of IE 7. The more I > thought about it, the more it bugged me that Uncle Steve and co. could so > blatantly intrude upon and otherwise crush all my local browser settings at > their whim. For what it's worth, my XP SP2 installation under VirualBox in > Ubuntu did not do this, neither did my Crossover office IE 6 installation. > How did they do this?
IE6 and IE7 must have some sort of "phone home" accessory that gets the marketing message from the mothership. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
