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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

3 Steps to Help Ensure your PC is Protected
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

Scan your PC for embedded spyware:

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.12
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10247783.html

Consider purchasing and installing a good internet security program:
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/nis_pe/features.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Everytime I go into the internet - up comes Exact search
| or www.bestoftheweb.cc/errorpage/ - I am old lady and
| find it very frustrating and don't know how to get rid of
| it
|
 
Hi Helena,

It sounds like a web-site has 'Hijacked' your home-page.

If this is the case, to sort it out, (Assuming you are using Internet
Explorer (IE) to browse the internet - you almost certainly are):

Click on 'Tools' from the IE main menu,
Choose 'Internet Options'

The window that opens should have several 'Tabs'
Click on the 'General' tab if it is not already selected.
At the top should be a box called 'Home Page'
Type your favourite website in the textbox here (or click 'Use Blank' if you
don't want one)
Then click the OK button.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

ChrisM
 
If this has been set as your home page you can change it by going to TOOLS>Internet Options... in Internet Explorer. Under the GENERAL tab you will see a heading called Home Page. Under this is a box which lets you type in your home page. Change it to http:// followed by the name of your site for example, if you want to set it to Yahoo, type http://www.yahoo.com
 
Hi Helena,

Everytime I go into the internet - up comes Exact search
or www.bestoftheweb.cc/errorpage/ - I am old lady and
find it very frustrating and don't know how to get rid of
it

Your homepage has been hijacked.
More info about parasites:
http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

Download the utility CWshredder:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Unzip - close *all* instances of IE & OE, hit the executable and
follow
the prompts.

You can also download Hijack This from here:

http://www.mjc1.com/files/merijn/hijackthis.exe

Go here:
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

For instructions on how to use it; you have to post the log it
produces here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
so experts tell you what is good and what is malware
HiJack This is a program that simply searches for programs that run at
boot time, and checks for browser plug-ins. The results this program
gives you are generally just informative. Most of the programs it will
come up with are valid programs that you actually want running. You'll
have to go through the results and tell the program to delete unwanted
programs. If you can't figure out what some of the programs are, don't
just delete them, research them and/or post them so experts can let
you know what the program does. I generally will just type the program
name into google which gets a decent answer pretty quickly.


Try downloading, installing and updating the
spyware removers from the links below. Run both of them.

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download


If these don't correct the problem, then get yourself a copy of
BHODemon, available at
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm .

It does not need installing - simply unzip and run the EXE program. It
is easy to use. It will find the hijackware DLL files, and give you
the ability to disable them.

Hope this helps.
 
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