Home Page Hijacking
This isn't new, but the aggressiveness and harm that is now being associated with it is.
One easy way I have made some sites (especially those with popups like our local newspaper site) not spew their commercial vomit all over my screen was to set these sites as "Restricted" sites under the Internet Tools Security option. This has eliminated the commercial pop-ups when I go to read my local news.
Spybot is a good program have used it on many machines to clear up problems.
Just another method to use in addition to other security features.
It's getting to the point where the Internet is getting so saturated with this kind of mindless marketing that it makes it even more painful to navigate than it already is.
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