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Submitted by BabyDuckHat on Thursday July 02 2009, @12:18PM

BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught "Windows Search Helper" trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit it's own products."

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