Home page hijacked by MS!

[SS]

Greetings all...
I posted this (incorrectly) in the XP group and got a few tips, but
nothing's working.

Here's the deal...

Two days ago, out of the blue, my IE6 home page was hijacked by an ad page
to download MS IE8. No matter what I do to change back to my home page, this
annoying page for IE8 comes up. As I watch the address bar, it quickly shows
something that says "microsoft...redirect.dll...blah blah blah" and then
finishes up with this IE8 propaganda.

I have XP with SP3.
I run anti-virus daily (and it shows nothing)
and I just ran Spybot and it says my system is clean.

Any ideas? It's not a big deal...I made a new icon for my desktop with my
preferred homepage so I can click on that instead of the IE icon...it's just
something that's irritating me....ok....so I'm crabby....I'm unemployed now
for 2 months and little things are beginning to tick me off.

ok...I'm done....thanks for any help.

SS

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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

 

[Manish Choudhary]

open add/remove programs and if you see IE 8.0 is listed, remove
that.Followed by if you want to remove Ie 7.0 as well, can do that by running
a command %windir%\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe followed by click next and
finish to remove IE 7.0.Hope it fixes the problem.

 

[Rick Wilson]

Good solution. This can also be done with a GPO in Active Directory.

IMHO this is a poor way for Microsoft to conduct business. The default home
page for my users is our Sharepoint server and MS's actions caused a flood of
help desk requests. Pointless anyway because the users don't have the rights
to install software. This was a complete waste of time and valuable
resources.

Shame on Microsoft!