Bing!

[kenberg]

Roughly once a month, the following happens. I am bouncing around on Firefox and I get a message:

 

 

A program on your computer has corrupted your default search provider setting for Internet Explorer.

 

Internet Explorer has reset this setting to your original search provider, Bing (www.bing.com)

 

Internet Explorer will now open Search Provider, where you can change the setting or install new search providers.

 

 

I click OK and indeed, Search Provider comes up offering me the promised opportunity to change. Bing is the only choice listed. I close the Search Provider and open Firefox, which works fine and makes no mention of not being my default search provider or of any corruption. Nor does IE complain about being corrupted.

 

If I were a suspicious sort, I might suspect a con job. Not being a suspicious sort, I still suspect a con job. Anyone out there understand this? I suppose it's just some minor clash of some sort, more annoying than serious.

 

Btw, I thinnk the computer predates Bing and I have never listed Bing as my default or even used it, as near as I can recall.

[jjbrr]

I don't know, but you should use Firefox exclusively and completely ignore anything to do with IE. Make Firefox your default for everything.

[akhare]

Is the message being displayed in a JavaScript window or in a dialog box? A lot of web page scams will try and look like a message being displayed by the operating system...can you post a snapshot of it?

[wyman]

I don't know, but you should use CHROME exclusively and completely ignore anything to do with IE. Make CHROME your default for everything.

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[JoAnneM]

What is wrong with IE? I have never had a problem.

[Jlall]

thats waht she sid

[kenberg]

I have used Firefox as my default for years. I have thought about Chrome but I have not tried it. I have stayed away from IE although I have not seen any great problems with it.

 

 

I can't get a screenshot of the message, it's gone, but it was a modest sized white rectangle with the quoted words, with an OK button. Clicking the button took me to the list of search providers but did nothing else as far as I know.

My security is, I think, reasonably good For example, when I start BBO my computer asks me if I really want to let NetBridgeVu.exe run. (I imagine I could change a default for BBO, but the point is that the computer checks back before running any executable file.) So I think my problem is something internal and I will even grant that probably it is IE trying to help me in some obscure way. The Windows 7 system, I think, incorporates IE as part of its core even if I use a different browser. Am I correct about that?

 

But it seems to think something got corrupted and nothing seems to be corrupted. I think maybe I have to think through just what it was that I was doing and maybe figure out why it caused a problem.

 

I just got ticked off, but on further thought I realize that it's asking a lot to have anyone diagnose this from a distance.

[Fluffy]

I am using both chrome and firefox at this time, chorme works better on some applications however fails misserably on a couple of ones (browsing my Poker hand history for example). Firefox is more complete and I recomend it for not advanced users.

 

IE is a piece of *****. Whenever I have o try it because I am not using one of my computers I end up raged.