A Homepage takeover

[Mike]

first off let me say I am not all that computer literate,
I a computer with windows xp on it, my son set me up with
it, and I have been having a problem with a "homepage"
that seems to have taken over my computer, I used to use
the msn homepage, as I have a mail address there, but as
of late I cant get the msn page to stay up, i can go to
control panel and change it to Msn and use it then and
there, but afterwards I try and use, say the search
engine or get to my email, this other homepage takes
over, every darn time, I would truly love to remove it
and be done with it, I feel rather useless in that I cant
find it, or remove it.....anyone have any ideas?

Canuk Mike

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I Can't Change My Home Page - It Keeps Resetting!
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm

Home Page Setting Changes Unexpectedly, or You Cannot Change Your Home Page Setting
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320159&Product=ie600

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| first off let me say I am not all that computer literate,
| I a computer with windows xp on it, my son set me up with
| it, and I have been having a problem with a "homepage"
| that seems to have taken over my computer, I used to use
| the msn homepage, as I have a mail address there, but as
| of late I cant get the msn page to stay up, i can go to
| control panel and change it to Msn and use it then and
| there, but afterwards I try and use, say the search
| engine or get to my email, this other homepage takes
| over, every darn time, I would truly love to remove it
| and be done with it, I feel rather useless in that I cant
| find it, or remove it.....anyone have any ideas?
|
| Canuk Mike

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following programs to check for any spyware that might be on
your system. Have a look in the help files for each program to got started:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Lawrence Abrams]

Please follow these steps in order to clean your computer of Malware which
can include Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Spyware, Hijackers and Dialers.

Step 1:
Download Spybot and Adaware from the following locations and install them.
You should run both programs and clean up what it finds. This is to
gaurantee that you find the most malware you can installed on your computer.

Before running the scans on both programs, it is mandatory that you update
the programs. There are update options in each program when you run them.

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

If you would like to learn more about how to use these two programs with the
proper settings you can read the tutorials below:

AD-AWARE Tutorial
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial48.html

SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY Tutorial
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial43.html

When you scan with both programs, fix everything that it finds.

When you are done with the scan and fixing the items. Please continue with
the next step.

Step 2:

It is important that you run Spybot and Adaware before you proceed with this
step. Fixing enties with Hijackthis may leave behind unwanted files on your
computer if the previous step was not done first.

Create a directory on your hardrive to save HijackThis.exe. A directory
like c:\hijackthis. If you do not do this, you will not be able to use the
backup/restore features.

Download HijackThis from:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/hijackthis.php

Save this file into the directory you made previously and then run the
program. Click on the Scan button and when it is finished click on the Save
Log button. A Notepad window will open with the contents of this log. Click
on Edit then click on Select all. Then click on Edit and then Click on
Copy.

Register an account at http://www.bleepingcomputer.com and post this created
log into the Hijackthis Logs forum at that site. To do this, once you are
registered, create a new post, right click in message area and select paste
to paste the log into the post.

An expert will reply to you after reading this post. DO NOT fix any entries
unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing as you may cause
more damage to the system

To see a tutorial on using HijackThis you can click on the link below.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial42.html

 

[Guest]

There's also a slick feature in Spybot Search & Destroy that will lock your
IE home page so it cannot be changed, once you get it set to the location you
want.