Hmmm....sounds like evil to me

                           

A friend forwarded the following email and screen shots. Amazing that Google can skate by with things like this, and yet Microsoft would be raked over the coals. You'd think the EU would be all over this one. Here's the email body:

Y’know, if WE were to do stuff like this, we’d probably get SUED…

I got this alert after seeing a pop-up telling me “a program is attempting to change your default search settings away from Google”.  Really?  A program?  Actually, that was ME changing it after discovering that for some reason MY default choice was mysteriously switched from Live Search to Google in IE, but as far as Google is concerned I’m not a user but merely a lowly program (why am I having a Tron flashback all of a sudden?).  Maybe it’s just me, but this seems a little heavy-handed. 

I wonder if the folks at Yahoo have been seeing THIS alert lately…