Microsoft Edge Hacked

Agreed! When trying to get bookmarks only allowed to be imported from IE which isn't even available until pinning the "iexplorer.exe" file to the Start and Task bar I had to first get them imported into the re-enabled IE 11 and then imported into Edge and found that even when stretched out across the second display here I couldn't move the shortcut icon around on the Favorites bar as far as seeing which ones would be left in view. No option to delete was found either.

Someone else complained to me just last weekend about having bought a brand new laptop with 10 coming on it and not able to get onto FaceBook at all which I did rather find puzzling but that is someone who won't be bothered in learning how to do things either! He would rather tinker with the smart phone then ask for help with anything.

It wasn't any web browser not even Edge that got hacked here recently. Out of the blue one night I was suddenly getting calls in from a cell phone I knew wasn't in service from being turned off. I contacted the care facility to have someone check up anyways on someone and heard the phone was off. Later I got strange emails as well as text messages and found it was the Twitter account that got hacked. Somehow someone was able to see the unidentified calls made but showing a number on the contacts list until I blocked the cell number and closed up the account. You can't pin that on any browser or av program not doing it's job but the social network's lack of security when any account can be violated that easily. The purpose was to spam apparently while everything still got closed up.

pascopete said:

Using Firefox, I must have surfed about 20 websites including this one with all their complicated mumbo jumbo "solutions", none of which worked. Then it hit me- Why don't I simply restore windows to a previous date before this problem happened? This I did, and Voila! Edge is back to normal. If my Mywot add-on was working on Edge like it is on my Firefox, the problem would have never happened in the first place. It would have warned me before going to the rogue site. The rogue site was vokaroo dot com. I had meant to punch in vocaroo dot com.

What will actually work in keeping you completely away from bogey sites to begin with is having web filtering processes watching over things! An Internet security suit often being the better version of an av software like VIPRE Internet Security 2015 or Norton Internet Security wlll check for malicious as well as any suspicious type of coding and usually block a site entirely! To get on some sites here found to be safe but with options for toolbar and making it your home page blah blah Bull shoy you have to shut the system protection down entirely when there isn't a separate option for the 3rd party firewall.

Oh it helps when first finding out about these types of options! When the Bing search engine was first new I ran into a beaut of a bug laden site! Had some fun cleaning off the 7 RC build at the time. Later on I was to hear about VIPRE and gave that program's 30 day trial a go and at this went with the life time license actually good until July 8 2026 so 10 is covered!

I just had the same thing happen to me and was glad I found this discussion. Can you tell me how you think it happened to you? I was simply listening to MP3's (may have gone to a couple sites to get information about a song), but really can't determine how someone was able to change the home page in MS Edge. Any thoughts?

UPDATE: Just saw the other responses and have a better understanding of the issue. Couldn't figure out how to delete my posts.