[ale] OT: gohip.com is evil

[Scott Nolde]

See this:
http://www.gohip.com/remove_browser_enhancement.html

- Scott

"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem with a site called "gohip.com". Apparently
> one of my family members went there in Netscape on our Win98 box
> one day, and now the site plagues us continually: everyone's
> home pages get set to gohip.com whenever the machine shuts
> down, and manually changing them back *doesn't work*. And as soon
> as you open the browser, it starts a Java applet that randomly
> pops up advertising windows unless you open the task list
> and kill every Netscape task in sight. I'm getting mad just
> writing about it!
> 
> I thought I had ironed this out the other day by manually
> deleting all my users' netscape\users\<name>\prefs.js files,
> but when I rebooted the machine today everything was gohip,
> gohip, f**king gohip!
> 
> Am I going to have to re-install Windows (shudder) on this
> machine to get rid of this sh*t or what?
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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