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Hello;
I am using Seamonkey 2.23 which I downloaded on Dec. 13, 2013. I run
McAfee internet security and Advanced System Care in the system tray.
Occasionally upon booting up I get a dialog box from Advanced System
Care that there is an attempt to change my homepage; it offers me the
option of blocking that change, which I always do. Right now my
Seamonkey loads to the Seamonkey page so that I can be notified when
there are updates.
Unless "Advanced System Care" is an extension installed in Seamonkey, it
would be totally unrelated to Seamonkey. It seems to me that it is
referring to the home page of MSIE (Microsoft internet explorer), since
Microsoft likes to pretend that MSIE is part of their operating system,
and a lot of third party software follows that.
BTW, the message sounds false, since by default you would have to
explicitly authorise any changes to MSIE configuration, which are
blocked by default, except inside the configuration menu.
I would recommend setting to automatically block such changes, to avoid
the hassle of repeated requests from some unknown agent. (Quite
possibly a virus.)
If you ever did want to make such changes, you can always unblock for
the occasion.
BTW, are you using a password logon for your computer ? Besides being
much more secure, it greatly reduces notifications.
Note that you don't need to set a Seamonkey home page to receive
notifications of updates. The notification process is initiated by your
local Seamonkey configuration, under the page at edit / preferences /
advanced / installation of software.
There you set the parametres for notification of updates to extensions
(above) and Seamonkey itself (below)
The problem appears to be that the attempt to change my homepage is
often blocking my loading Seamonkey browser altogether; I load the mail
module first before clicking on 'Window' drop-down menu for 'Browser'.
[I do this because the general 'Seamonkey' shortcut loads the browser
first and then the mail page next for some reason; it did not used to do
so.] While the 'Mail' page loads fine, the browser will not load, but
simply runs the 'hourglass'. It certainly appears to be because of the
attempt to change my homepage, even though I have blocked it. If I stop
Seamonkey in Task Manager and reboot then the browser loads normally
after loading the 'Mail' page.
It seems from what you say that it is changing the default browser. You
want to set MSIE to never ask to set the default browser, and Seamonkey
to always set the default browser.
This is what will be used when a browser is required to display an HTML
page. (from the internet or locally.)
Otherwise on starting Seamonkey, you want "Seamonkey -mail" to be
executed to load the mail option first. This is separate from the
default browser. You can do this with a shortcut. (in certain contexts
called a launcher.)
Besides McAfee and Advanced System Care running in the background
[system tray], I acquired a program this week called 'Malwarebytes' and
ran that in a 2-hour scan. It found two low-threat files - one in the
recycle bin - that we corrected. Yet still something is attempting to
change my homepage and blocking the loading of the browser. I suppose I
could discover who or what is trying to change my homepage by allowing
the change, but I do not know that that would be safe nor that it would
lead to a solution to the problem.
Note that there are many programs giving imaginary solutions to
imaginary problems. Usually such programs just slow down the computer
and give a lot of false positives.
As for allowing the change, it is highly unlikely that that you give you
any more info. The notification, if legitimate and properly formulated,
should give that info BEFORE you accept.
Does Seamonkey have any suggestions of how to deal with this problem?
Personally, I would uninstall most "security" software, as they often
conflict with each other and give false positives, and misleading
notifications.
For example, the notice about changing the home page could be set off by
MSIE attempting to make itself the default browser (in place of
Seamonkey). Or even subsequent to that. That is changable in the
settings of MSIE.
Bob Ireland
Orlando, FL
[email protected]
Hope that helps :)
--
André
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