I made the mistake of visiting a website operated by a
firm called velnet.com, which webhosts and they have made
their page into my browser's homepage without my
permission. Worse, I am unable to restore the original
setting. When I go to Tools ... Internet Options ...
General and try to click on the address box there, it and
the three buttons below are permanently greyed out. This
state survives a full reset of the computer. Any ideas
what I can do, other than warn others about this
irritating site? Velnet.com have published an impossible
phone number on their site and they don't answer e-mails.

R. Carter

R Carter,
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
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Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 9-12-03]
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"R Carter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I made the mistake of visiting a website operated by a
> firm called velnet.com, which webhosts and they have made
> their page into my browser's homepage without my
> permission. Worse, I am unable to restore the original
> setting. When I go to Tools ... Internet Options ...
> General and try to click on the address box there, it and
> the three buttons below are permanently greyed out. This
> state survives a full reset of the computer. Any ideas
> what I can do, other than warn others about this
> irritating site? Velnet.com have published an impossible
> phone number on their site and they don't answer e-mails.
>
> R. Carter

you need to remove the spyware, Go to the link below and download spybot.

http://security.kolla.de/index.php?l...&page=download

It is the best I've come acrross.

~ cliff


"R Carter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:06ac01c37d66$70e57d10$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> I made the mistake of visiting a website operated by a
> firm called velnet.com, which webhosts and they have made
> their page into my browser's homepage without my
> permission. Worse, I am unable to restore the original
> setting. When I go to Tools ... Internet Options ...
> General and try to click on the address box there, it and
> the three buttons below are permanently greyed out. This
> state survives a full reset of the computer. Any ideas
> what I can do, other than warn others about this
> irritating site? Velnet.com have published an impossible
> phone number on their site and they don't answer e-mails.
>
> R. Carter

i think i remember this happening to me with another
site. try going into start->run->control panel-> internet
options->general and i think you can change it from
there. not sure though no guarentee
>-----Original Message-----
>
>I made the mistake of visiting a website operated by a
>firm called velnet.com, which webhosts and they have
made
>their page into my browser's homepage without my
>permission. Worse, I am unable to restore the original
>setting. When I go to Tools ... Internet Options ...
>General and try to click on the address box there, it
and
>the three buttons below are permanently greyed out. This
>state survives a full reset of the computer. Any ideas
>what I can do, other than warn others about this
>irritating site? Velnet.com have published an impossible
>phone number on their site and they don't answer e-mails.
>
>R. Carter
>.
>