Did Microsoft change your default web browser? [Windows updates April 2007]
Posted by Josef 11th April 2007 in ThoughtsI arrived to work on this sunny day to find a number of Windows updates waiting for me to let them loose;
- MS07-017 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB925902)
- MS07-019 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB931261)
- MS07-020 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB932168)
- MS07-021 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB930178)
- MS07-022 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB931784)
So being someone who likes to stay up to date I clicked the install button, obviously once the updates were installed I permormed the ritual restart. Once I was back on I opened up Firefox (my preferred web browser) and to my surprise it wasn’t the default web browser anymore, Internet bloody Explorer was. So I instantly assumed it had something to do with the updates. A few minutes later and a workmate of mine (sleeping Stu) just finished installing his updates and fired Mozilla Firefox up and the same thing happened, IE was now the default web browser. Is Microsoft sneakily trying to force us all to use IE? Has anyone else had the same thing happen to them? And does anyone have any explanation to this IE takeover?
After reading a number of articles and registering at the Technet webcast I am still none the wiser;
Anybody?
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I can’t say that I had any such trouble. But although I don’t use IE, my preferred browser is based on IE (Maxthon, which interestingly Google have just bought into). So perhaps that would mean that I wouldn’t be affected? Then again, some friends who use Firefox have not had any problems either. Of course, undoubtedly we’re all on different spec machines with different software installed so the updates we receive would vary a bit anyway.
However, it seems that the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (or whatever it’s called) update may have done the same thing for some people last month: http://reddit.com/info/1ap2h/comments
When I last updated microsoft updates last week 11/05/07, everything went wrong on my computer. I couldnt get my internet connection, or my email on (incredimail).
I spoke to my server about the internet connection and it wasnt them, they told me to do a restore, which I did, everything was fine, and then the Microsoft updates were on again. And EVERY time this happens I cant use the Internet or my email!!!! I dont not what to do…… its a complete nightmare ….. and ideas anyone what I can do ??????