IE Favorites: How to prevent hijacking
Hi all, Does anyone know of a teak (or utility) that will prevent outside applications from adding links to my favorites? As an example, Netscape (which I unfortunately have to install for testing) adds useless AOL links into the favorites folder.
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a teak (or utility) that will prevent outside applications from adding links to my favorites? As an example, Netscape (which I unfortunately have to install for testing) adds useless AOL links into the favorites folder. ICQ is notorious for doing the same thing, etc.
I have tried making the folder read-only; it has zero effect, since it does not prevent anything from being added.
Thanks
Does anyone know of a teak (or utility) that will prevent outside applications from adding links to my favorites? As an example, Netscape (which I unfortunately have to install for testing) adds useless AOL links into the favorites folder. ICQ is notorious for doing the same thing, etc.
I have tried making the folder read-only; it has zero effect, since it does not prevent anything from being added.
Thanks
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Maybe you could restrict the NTFS permissions, and change your user account to a limited-user?
It would make it a pain to add favorites that you want though, unless you have something like a bookmarks.html file that you can manually update.
For other tasks that need Admin rights, you can always right-click and "Run As..."
It would make it a pain to add favorites that you want though, unless you have something like a bookmarks.html file that you can manually update.
For other tasks that need Admin rights, you can always right-click and "Run As..."
Thanks, I have tried this but it does not work. The problem with permissions is that in order to install some software, you must do so with administrative rights, which immediately circumvents any restriction placed on the folder
