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Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine

Posted by timothy on from the now-what-did-we-say-about-playground-behavior? dept.

BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its own products."

2 of 389 comments (clear)

  1. Resistance is futile by code4fun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just Bing it! Thank God I'm on a Unix box.

  2. Re:Once more with feeling by Latinhypercube · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what. Quicktime constantly tries to take over the playback of ALL my media files, even though it has horrible avi support. Everyone does it, even VLC does it and that's open source.