Refraise question on adding to favoroites

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Mark Barr

If a website is not capable of adding bookmarks to site in IE then if you
had some spyware on your machine could that add bookmarks to yours
favourites without your knowledge?

Any help greatly appreciated

mark
 
M

Michael Wilcox

Mark Barr said:
If a website is not capable of adding bookmarks to site in IE then if
you had some spyware on your machine could that add bookmarks to yours
favourites without your knowledge?

Since bookmarks are just a collection of files or a document with site
addresses, adware, spyware, or another dubious program could certainly add
its own sites to your list. Run Ad-aware to find any suspicious programs.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ If you truly never visited any
of the sites and never accepted the addition of these bookmarks, then one of
these programs is almost certainly responsible.
 
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Wÿrm

If a website is not capable of adding bookmarks to site in IE then if you
had some spyware on your machine could that add bookmarks to yours
favourites without your knowledge?

Any help greatly appreciated

mark

as i already earlier said...

My bet would be that it's more likely some program, trojan, or spyware in
your system that would have "bookmarked" that place if you have mysterious
bookmarks.

AdAware (www.lavasoft.de) and/or Spybot Seek & Destroy
(http://security.kolla.de) and maybe also Spywareblaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html just to be sure that in
your system no extra crap is installed
 

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