[WEB4LIB] Resetting the Home Page

[Andrew Mutch]

I knew this thread had a familiar ring...
:)
I don't recall that a solution was found to stop the behavior.  Is there a way to
lock-down the preferences in IE?

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"Charles P. Hobbs" wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Andrew Mutch wrote:
>
> > I've run across another security issue with Internet Explorer.  Some sites,
> > such as Excite, provide you the option of resetting your browser's home page
> > to their site.  If you grant the site permission to do so, it will replace
> > your default with their address.  This is fine and dandy for home users but
> > can be a real pain in a library setting.
>
> I remember a similar discussion about such. If I recall, half the screens
> in our library were showing "flightsimmers.net" instead of our home page.
> A little source code mining turned up some Javascript commands, only
> available in IE (not Netscape) that allow web pages to reset some browser
> settings, including the default page.
>
> That conversations starts at
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9910/0247.html