Default Home Page

[Sr]

After going through the chain of mails in this Section
regarding the Home Page resetting to the Different Home
Page other than the Selected Default Home Page.

I have DownLoaded Ad-Ware From Lavasoft.com and ran it on
the system intially it detected 29 objects and I have
deleted them and reset my Home Page to Yahoo and restarted
the Sysytem but Home Page has been reset to Different
other than I selected. Is there any thing else I need to
do apart from Jut running the Ad-Ware or is there any
better tool by which I can resolve this issue ????

 

[Dave Mazzetti]

After going through the chain of mails in this Section
regarding the Home Page resetting to the Different Home
Page other than the Selected Default Home Page.

I have DownLoaded Ad-Ware From Lavasoft.com and ran it on
the system intially it detected 29 objects and I have
deleted them and reset my Home Page to Yahoo and restarted
the Sysytem but Home Page has been reset to Different
other than I selected. Is there any thing else I need to
do apart from Jut running the Ad-Ware or is there any
better tool by which I can resolve this issue ????

I struggled for MONTHS with this one - evry time I tried to set my home
page to a blank one, it would immediately reset to Dell's Home Page. I
eventually discovered (thanks to the Dell user forums) that the software
I use to block pop up ads had an option to 'lock' the Home Page; it was
this that was resetting it all the time. Red-face, I unticked this
option and hey presto, I can now set my Home Page to whatever I want.
I'm not saying that this is what is causing your problem, but have a
really good think about what you have installed and if there's any
chance that it might be the culprit.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

After going through the chain of mails in this Section
regarding the Home Page resetting to the Different Home
Page other than the Selected Default Home Page.

I have DownLoaded Ad-Ware From Lavasoft.com and ran it on
the system intially it detected 29 objects and I have
deleted them and reset my Home Page to Yahoo and restarted
the Sysytem but Home Page has been reset to Different
other than I selected. Is there any thing else I need to
do apart from Jut running the Ad-Ware or is there any
better tool by which I can resolve this issue ????

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
especially
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Penna Elabi]

Home Page resetting to the Different Home Page other
than the Selected Default Home Page

You have probably inadvertently downloaded and installed adware,
spyware, parasite, trojan or a browser hijacker from some web site:

http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/#redirectedspyware