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Safari and Bing or Bling
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My safari:
Version 5.0 (5533.16)
now uses Bing or Bling for its searches
no one asked me
can I got back to Google?
cheers and thanks
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Safari > Preferences > General > Default Search Engine
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odd that Safari changed this by itself w/o my permission!
wonder how much they got paid!
thanks for the tip i knew it was in there somewhere
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You probably changed it accidentally in the menu under the magnifying glass of the search field.
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There are also some "apps" spread over Facebook that do that - and add their own affiliate code, of course. Haven't seen reports of them targeting Safari, but they do target FF and Chrome anyway, so it's not the regular IE-focused malware.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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naw
the Evil Empire did it with a biscuit.
youll read about them in the WSJ next week!
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Originally Posted by P 
There are also some "apps" spread over Facebook that do that - and add their own affiliate code, of course. Haven't seen reports of them targeting Safari, but they do target FF and Chrome anyway, so it's not the regular IE-focused malware.
Random apps can change code on MY machine without requiring any action on my part? I always wondered how these "Click here to make XYZ your default page!" links worked.. looks like a security flaw to me!
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I have Little Snitch installed
so I probably did it.
.... but maybe not ....
they are really after us. 
you will read about those biscuits soon
and its not PaRaNoYa
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Originally Posted by FireWire
Random apps can change code on MY machine without requiring any action on my part? I always wondered how these "Click here to make XYZ your default page!" links worked.. looks like a security flaw to me!
They ask you to install a browser plugin to make their page work. Said plugin can then do what they want. It's basically a trojan, except some lawyer will argue that the user gave permission when clicking Accept in that dialog box.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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