Hello all,
One of my students reported that when he tried to change his profile picture, a link to an Australian sex site appeared spontaneously in the Web page box. I saw the site, but omitted to copy the address. 
I deleted the link and it hasn't come back, so far.
Has anybody had a similar experience? (If not, I must assume that the student has been pulling my leg 
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Oh, we use version 1.3.4 in our pilot.
Rgrds, Paul.
There's a good chance the student's browser has been hijacked by spyware/adware, particularly assuming that they are using the infamous combination of Windows and Internet Explorer.
Spyware and Adware often do things like changing your homepage and search links to the address of porn sites and although I've not heard of this exact behaviour it does fit their general behaviour.
I'd suggest running Spybot and adaware on the machine to clear anything out.
To prevent these kinds of things happening again I'd recommend that the student use Windows Update regularly and switch to using the FireFox browser.
Yes this happened yesterday. My student then went to several different machines at home and at school to see if the problem replicates. It did everytime he set up a profile.
I have not been able to recreate this. Anyone have an idea on how to prevent this? I don't want to have to inspect student profiles.
, but its like when you find something burning, you exstinguish it first and then think of where it came from 
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I recommend testing the installation with a browser other than IE, e.g. firefox/mozilla/opera. I have spent many hours trying to chase down junk that was re-directing browsers to dubious sites etc, and in the end I found it was easier to recommend my users to only use IE to view sites that simply would not work with other browsers.
I combination of inherently lax security and being the biggest target on the web means using IE is a high risk proposition.
Some very authorative sources have given similar recommendations (including the Microsoft owned Slate web magazine)
Marcus