Re: Micro$oft wants to dominate the world!??

From: Gareth Jones (gareth@uberdog.net)
Date: 08/28/01 

Message-ID: <003401c12fc3$f51cfb50$4400a8c0@hiro>
From: "Gareth Jones" <gareth@uberdog.net>
To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Micro$oft wants to dominate the world!??
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:18:34 +0100

> My question is: is it possible to edit some dll/exe/whatever to remove
> this behavior (so apart from methods like adding your own
auto.search.msn.com
> record in your dns server [or hosts] and firewalling the whole msn stuff).

Tools | Internet Options | Advanced | Do not search from the Address bar.

> PSS: Some users (including me) are panicing and switching (back) to NS.

The last version of netscape I used was 4.7, I'm pretty sure it did
something similar. Certainly Konqueror and Mozilla do, and, as with IE, it
is pretty easy to turn the feature off.

Gareth

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