WTF just happened?
20 Aug 2008 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdI was trundling along on my PC when suddenly a barrage of IE (which I don't even use but is obviously installed on this XP machine) windows opened, filling the screen in a few seconds. For every window I closed, two new ones would open and killing the iexplore process wouldn't work, either. I couldn't get it to shut down properly, either so had to resort to the reset button...
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Date: 20/8/08 08:23 pm (UTC)My siter had similar a few years back, every half hour or so a barrage of porn sites would open in new windows. Really annoying.
Run all the usual scans &c, just to be sure.
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Date: 20/8/08 08:30 pm (UTC)It was a yahoo messenger related URL in the IE window. Maybe I accidentally clicked on an update thing but that would have opened in Firefox...
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Date: 21/8/08 08:05 am (UTC)On the other hand, it may just be very poor quality messenger software trying to update itself and getting confused. It's not so unreasonable for software to choose to open its URL in a specific browser, since that means they only have to get it working in one browser, and who cares which browser an update page opens in anyway?
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