"I suppose I should learn to type better," he says. But a typo that took him to mycpworld.com was only the beginning of his troubles. He soon discovered that this porn site was now both his home and default search page. He changed the settings back in Internet Explorer. But with his next system boot, www.mycpworld.com was back."
"No matter what I did, that was my home page," he says.
Interesting article. Someone acutally told me that this happened to them a few months ago and I had no idea what to do about it. I just sent them a copy of this page and throught that everyone ought to be aware of this nonsense.
posted on May 15, 2002 04:33:46 PM new
Porn sites thrive on misspelled words. I can't remember the name but a popular rare book site was just a letter away from porn. That's an interesting article with good info to save.
It's certainly better to self monitor internet privacy than to let someone like Ashcroft loose on the issue.
posted on May 19, 2002 05:53:20 PM new
we should be allowed to have fair trials where the clowns who do this are convicted them as a sentence they are permanently forbidden to have a lock on anything they own ever again.
That's an interesting article with good info to save.