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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."

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  1. Re:How is this news? by guruevi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's not the issue. The issue is that the 'required software update' Internet Explorer 8 changes all your preferences to bing.com instead of migrating/leaving it from IE7 or before. I have noticed it too on a machine I sometimes use. As soon as the latest updates are installed, the search preference and home page preference changes to bing.com (from whatever you had before) for all users.

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