Vender frozen in Home Page address

[Pech]

Can't change home page option in IE 6.

PC Advisor Magazine site monopoized my defaul home page in
IE60

I used a PC Advisor Magazine disk to load IE 6.0. Now PC
Advisor home page www.pcadvisor.com.uk is stuck as my
defaulthome page. I am denied access in IE Options to
chage the home page default. Also blue bar top of IE
Explorer reads "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by
PC Advisor"

I can not remove PC Advisor in IE Optons, to insernt my
www.msn.com home page. I have no access to change home
page default becasue PC Advisor Mag froze me out of this
option!

How Can I get rid of this nasty PC Advisor monopoly and
free up home page option to change to the default home
page I want? I contacted PC Advisor and naturally
received NO reply.

C Pech

 

[Mike Burgess]

Pech,
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Can't change home page option in IE 6"

Shows up in HijackThis as:
O6 - HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions present
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html#o6

"reads "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by PC Advisor"

Shows up in HijackThis as:
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title =
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=176497

To remove all branding:
Start | Run (type) "rundll32.exe iedkcs32.dll,Clear" (no quotes)
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Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-19-03]
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[Quinn]

Pech

If you look at the threads under my posting below (at
3.34AM) Mike Burgess's second reply points to the para in
the support article which gives the fix - ie if you delete
the homepage value in the key it describes you will remove
the greying out of the homepage reset options and should
be able to reste the homepage. Of course if the Magazine
left a trojan which resets it back you need to do the
other things Mike suggests.

David Quinn