Home Page Hijacking and Browser Helper Objects
Internet Explorer has a way for a website to add itself to the list of favorites. It’s a feature Microsoft added so that websites can have a button that says “Bookmark This Site! Just Click Here!”
Now, if that’s all that particular feature did, then there wouldn’t be any malware concerns over it. Unscrupulous programmers have taken advantage of it to create Home Page Hijackers. In a nutshell, a Home Page Hijacker is a program that reaches into your browser and changes your homepage…without your permission. You might think, “That’s easy enough to fix, just change my homepage back and everything is fine.”
