[geeks] weird hijack of IE7

[Jonathan J. M. Katz]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>wrote:

> No proxy.
>
> This is hijacked through IE7. If it was at the protocol level, it
> would have an issue with firefox too.
>
> None of the tools we have detect anything wrong with this machine, so
> it might be part of the dell software, but if that is the case, we
> should be getting more than 1 user with this problem.
>

Could this be some kind of fubar registry setting? I remember spybot search
& destroy having the ability to find that kind of stuff.