I am trying to help a friend with an XP problem. Here is
her description:

"I have my homepage set for ebay. How come everytime I
connect to the internet I get the "page cannot be
displayed" message? When I click on home then it takes me
right to ebay."

Her system is a new Dell and none of the defaults in XP
have been changed. Changing her home page to he ISP's
doesn't help. It still does the same thing.

Any ideas?
..

Thanks for the tips. I will probably get together with
her Monday or Tuesday evening. Will let you know how it
goes.

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>"Don Hensley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:021e01c3595d$fbe22bc0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I am trying to help a friend with an XP problem. Here
is
>> her description:
>>
>> "I have my homepage set for ebay. How come everytime I
>> connect to the internet I get the "page cannot be
>> displayed" message? When I click on home then it takes
me
>> right to ebay."
>>
>> Her system is a new Dell and none of the defaults in XP
>> have been changed. Changing her home page to he ISP's
>> doesn't help. It still does the same thing.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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>Could be some hijacker spyware trash:
>
>Control Panel > Internet Options > General tab
>Delete all cookies, Delete all Temporary Internet Files
(include offline
>content),
>then click on the "Settings" button next to "Delete
files" > click on "View
>Objects"
>remove all Downloaded Program Files and then close that
Window and click OK
>to the Settings window. Clear History.
>
>Click on the Advanced tab of Internet Options > Browsing
section
>uncheck "Enable third-party browser instructions
(requires restart)"
>Click Apply and OK at the bottom of Internet Options.
>Close Control Panel:
>
>Restart computer
>Go on the Internet and download one or both of these Anti
Spyware programs:
>
>Ad-aware 6.0 build 181
>http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10....html?tag=list
>
>Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.2
>http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10....html?tag=list
>
>(save the executable to a folder or desktop) Close your
browser
>and then install and scan your system with them and
delete any detected
>spywares.
>Update the Anti Spyware program and scan again.
>Restart computer.
>Go to Internet Options again and on the General tab, make
sure the correct
>Home Page is set.
>See if the issue is now resolved.
>HTH
>Please post back with results one way or the other.
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