RE: OT: lop.com

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

The reason that IE is sending you there is that it's got lop.com written
into it's "Seach Page Setting".

Rather annoyingly, you can't change this through the GUI, you can only
reset it to the MS default using "Tools/Internet
Options/Programs/Reset Web Settings"

That also resets your home page, so you'll need to reset that
afterwards.... If you think ahead, you can copy it into the cut/paste
buffer just before you do the reset ;-)

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 April 2002 20:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: lop.com


OK, wtf is going on here.

My netscape 6 install now has lop.com as it's homepage, and every time IE
can't find a page with either a DNS or 404 not found error, it
automatically 
redirects to lop.com It even installed itself as my Active desktop on
XP.

lop.com seems to be some kind of "adult directory", ie spam
central. I can 
guess where it's come from, but I can't find any trace of it. They have
uninstall instructions on their website, but gues what ... :-)

Anyone else seen this little bit of turdware and any ideas on how to get
rid?

-- 

Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
Chief Operations Officer
Football Networks Ltd
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