Yahoo is Evil

David just spent two hours freeing my browser from the evil clutches of Yahoo, which had hijacked my home page. I can’t believe this is a good business plan for Yahoo. We had to eliminate every trace of yahoo from my computer. I don’t know how it ever had the opportunity to hijack it since I’ve never used Yahoo, except to open mail (on Outlook) from friends who use it as an email address. I certainly will be very careful about never accessing it again and warning everyone I know about it. It’s a very evil program that it put in my computer and was almost impossible to ferret out. At first I thought it was a spy program masquerading as Yahoo, but it turns out that it was yahoo itself insinuating itself through a back door of a poorly written piece of code, courtesy Microsoft. This is one of the dangers of not being terribly geeky: one has to relay too heavily on Microsoft and an unscrupulous company such as Yahoo can hijack one’s internet explorer browser. Thank heavens for David’s persistence. I had already spent a lot of time working on the problem myself and had got nowhere.