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chris47 · 07-16-2009, 07:45 AM

I had this problem when setting up a computer with IE6 last week. Even when I went to google by entering it in the browser I was hijacked to bing when I entered a search. It stopped after I got AVG on the machine.
Bing is a Microsoft product so I'm guessing this "problem" is a marketing thing to capture those who aren't, computer savvy enough to fix it, or aware enough about computers to notice it as an issue.
Try putting an internet security program on the machine I think it will stop. I'm guessing we'll be hearing about a lawsuit by Google or an unfair practices complaint soon enough.

I've tried bing, since I had no choice at the time, and it sucked so you can add that to the annoying viral nature MS has decided to give it to the long list of useless crap that seems to get by whomever is in charge of monitoring quality of product in Redmond.

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chris47 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 99 OS: win2k Professional,vistaHP	Re: Member Poll Bing search? I had this problem when setting up a computer with IE6 last week. Even when I went to google by entering it in the browser I was hijacked to bing when I entered a search. It stopped after I got AVG on the machine. Bing is a Microsoft product so I'm guessing this "problem" is a marketing thing to capture those who aren't, computer savvy enough to fix it, or aware enough about computers to notice it as an issue. Try putting an internet security program on the machine I think it will stop. I'm guessing we'll be hearing about a lawsuit by Google or an unfair practices complaint soon enough. I've tried bing, since I had no choice at the time, and it sucked so you can add that to the annoying viral nature MS has decided to give it to the long list of useless crap that seems to get by whomever is in charge of monitoring quality of product in Redmond.