re: Browser hijack Monday, February 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6729 messages posted) Might have been shipped before the started using Dell PC Restore, which was 7/14/04 for USA shipments of consumer Dimension models. If you see the blue bar at the top of the screen with www.dell.com after the logo but before windows, it has the necessary programming to alter startup to access the restore partition. Whether or not someone nuked the contents of the partition is another matter. Written in response to: re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:38 am) Responses to this message: re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 6:56 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:51 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ricer46: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:59 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 3:01 pm) re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:14 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:49 am) re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:46 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:33 am) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:38 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 2:45 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:56 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 7:29 am) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 9:06 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 5:23 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:12 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 3:21 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:56 pm) re: Browser hijack (Kevinh: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:01 am) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:36 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum