Beware of pages changing your homepage. . .

[Charles P. Hobbs]

In our library (King Drew Health Sciences Library in LA) we are currently
using a web-based menu for access to databases, etc. (i.e. the browser
is always running). 

One day I walked by, and noticed that a number of workstations had
"flightsimmers.net" as their homepage. Not good.

I went over to that page, and it had a selection "Make flightsimmers.net
your home page". A quick view of the source (it's in frames, so you have
to poke around a bit) brought up this code:

---begin code segment---
<a HREF onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';
this.setHomePage('http://www.flightsimmers.net');">

<p align="center"><img src="/homemake.gif" align="left">Click here to make
flight simmers net your default homepage!</a>

---end code segment---

This is the first time I've even heard of the setHomePage javascript
function. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and can it be defeated?

Thanks!

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