I was rather stunned to see my browser head for Xupiter.com this morning myself, especially since I'm the only one who's used it, and I haven't downloaded or installed anything on this system in days. The browser was fine when I got on early this morning, but something happened in between the morning and afternoon. So I did some looking in my history...I don't know if there's a connection, but it seems awfully coincidental to me. In today's history are two links, one to
http://webpdp.gator.com/...hp?yic=HIC_AdDynamix and another to
http://webpdp.gator.com/...hp?yic=HIC_AdDynamix What's odd about these two links is that first off, I never visited gator.com, I uninstalled gator many months ago, completely cleaned my system of all traces of it. And both of these links have NO TITLE...they just show up as blank links. I don't have any other links that do that in my history...So I'm thinking this is all kind of strange, cleaning out the Xupiter stuff is no biggie, but how in the world did this critter come to live on my system?
So I checked the history in the order the links were viewed. Lo and behold, I find a link to
http://www.xupiter.com/...install/install.html in between a site I visited called "Porcelain Dolls for sale" at
http://www.fortunecity.com/...macau/868/dolls.html and the next page at collectiblesnet.com.... I'm figuring that something on that page links people to the Xupiter.com installation. And the other references to gator.com came interestingly enough right after I discovered Xupiter.com was suddenly my startup page. Right after that, were the two blank gator.com links and then one to "gatordef.html" which was really
http://banners.pennyweb.com/gator/gatordef.html So what does one make of all this? Maybe it's all coincidental (yeah, right) and maybe it shouldn't be a big deal. At least it's not a virus! But I don't like having my browser start page hijacked without my knowledge or consent.
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