Windows update page

[Charles Woll]

Following the most recent update of Windows XP, the windows update page is
now the home page when i first start up iexplorer 6.0. Subsequent starts of
iexplorer go to my default start page.
I would like to stop this behavior and go back to the old system I had where
windows would check for updates in the background and notify when necessary
to install the updates.

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Charlie Woll

 

[PA Bear]

IE Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing > Automatically check for
IE updates (uncheck)

 

[Charles Woll]

Thank you, charlie

IE Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing > Automatically check
for IE updates (uncheck)

 

[PA Bear]

(Who's Charlie? <w>)

YW & let us know if that works for you. It *hasn't* for some others and we
just might be seeing the signature of a very new hijackware problem.

 

[Guest]

Hi PA Bear.

I also am having a problem with windows updates -- I don't mind having them
download automatically, but do NOT want them to install without my
intervention. Recently, they have been doing so. I finally surmised that I
also have been hijacked in someway, by some spyware. I cannot find it,
neither can the most recent version of SpySweeper. And I've searched the
registry and find nothing that looks like a rogue set key.

If I go to IE Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing > Automatically
check for IE updates is UNchecked. Your note on 8/9/2005 said:

"YW & let us know if that works for you. It *hasn't* for some others and we
just might be seeing the signature of a very new hijackware problem."

What do you know?? I'm on Win2000Pro, IE 6 SP1

 

[Jon Kennedy]

As for your spyware issue, use Ad-Aware, MSAS and/or Spybot Search & Destroy
to remove it.

Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.html
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to
check for common parasites

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

As for your automatic Windows Updates issue, I'm not familiar with Win2K,
but in XP in Control Panel, there's an applet called "Automatic Updates"
where you can control how the OS updates itself via several options:
"automatic" where it does it all for you, and three others - one where it
will download, prompt, but not install, one for just notification of
available updates, and one to disable the feature altogether.