Alarming Discovery on My New Computer

Okay, everyone read that my computer was broke and i had to get a new one. Well, yesterday, I set it up, got the internet going, installed the printer, and that was about it...havent had time to go over all the bugs and get alot of stuff off or put alot of stuff on. It has the new windows vista and the internet explorer 7 which automatically comes with a google search bar at the top right under the ie...address bar. I dont like this and havent had time to take it off yet.....will find time today though....

My husband last night was checking his email and looking at some hunting websites and because we are hunters and like to know what is going on in the hunting world, he was going to go to the wildlife department website....He was using the google search bar instead of the ie address bar because he didnt see the address bar....it is gray and kind of blends in with the background of the window. I heard him say "Oh my God!" So I came in to see what was going on and on the screen was a porn site.......NO MY HUSBAND DOES NOT LOOK AT THESE.......IF YOU GO TO THE GOOGLE SEARCH BAR ON MY NEW COMPUTER AND TYPE IN http://www.w/ IT HAS A DROP DOWN LIST THAT HAS DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE AUTOMATIC SECLECTIONS FOR http://www.w/ ONE OF THEM WAS http://www.wilds/#.COM FILL IN THE LETTERS....OKAY. He couldnt believe that it was actually automatic and was curious as to whether it would actually bring it up.....well yes it brought it up.

Well curiostity killed the cat as they say and I got to wondering and so did he if it was just that letter or all of them.. It is every letter of the alphabet that has some sort of porn site attached to the drop down list. one of them is very decieving.....it is sex ed or something like that....yeah sex ed alright....

Anyway, this is not really a problem for christian adults as we know not to click on them and to avoid them. But for my stepson, and my niece that come over and get on the computer all though i monitor them, i dont want them to accidentally click on something like that. I dont promote that kind of stuff and I dont think that they need to be looking at it.

There are people out there that say that if you raise your kids right, they wont look at stuff like that, wont even be curious.............well that may be but if they accidentally click on it cause we all know how easy it is to click on something that you dont want......and my stepson is being raised by his mom. He does get taught right when he is around us....but the other days that he is around her.....i dont think it matters. And my niece, she would turn green and run away and probably never touch a computer again but still the images would be in her mind.

I think it is apalling that these sites are automatically listed when you type in letters.....it is not right. This is what our world is coming to. What are we to do about it?

Just something that I thought you ought to be aware of.....If I had known it the first thing i would have done was taken the google toolbar off of my computer. Which is what I am going to do right now.....

Love and Prayers
Crystal