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pinkfloyd 01-31-2005 03:37 PM

firefox homepage hijacked??
 
Is this possible? When I start firefox it starts loading whatuseek.com. I just installed firefox a few minutes ago, and only browsed about two web pages. The first page was novell.com and the other was the firefox themes one. How could I have been hijacked so quickly? I mean, this would be record time even for Internet Explorer!! Anyway, has anyone else experienced this? any thoughts on how to remove it? thx

snecklifter 01-31-2005 04:14 PM

You will want to check three things I think.
1. Your proxy settings - make sure you are not being re-directed. Select direct connection to the internet
2. Remove any additional parameters that launch firefox
3. Change DNS settings and see if the problem still occurs.
Regards
Chris

pinkfloyd 01-31-2005 04:58 PM

thanks! problem solved


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