From
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm
If you have SpyBot S&D installed, go to the "Immunize" section.
Is "Lock IE Start Page Settings" ticked?
If so, uncheck it.
If that is not the problem, get and run these programs (if you test
after each one you can stop when the problem is gone):
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Once installed make sure to update via online before scanning!
and
Spybot - Search & Destroy -
http://security.kolla.de/
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
Once installed make sure to update via online before scanning!
and
BHO Demon:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/
Until the problem is solved.
If you still have problems:
In Regedit, navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel
In the right-hand pane, right-click the "HomePage" value, then select
Modify. Change it to: 00 00 00 00
Also change either or these to zero 0 instead of 1 if present:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
- DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
If you don't have this key, browse to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
and in the right hand pane, double click "Local Page" and set equal to
"C:\WINDOWS\System\blank.htm" (no quotes) which will hopefully set your
Home Page to blank and then allow you to subsequently modify it using
Internet Options.
Exit regedit and reboot.
When you reboot, you should be able to change the home page again.
Some pages will also download a program which keeps changing it back. Go
to Start | Run and type:
msconfig
and press <Enter> or click OK. Go to the Startup tab.
See if you can identify any suspicious programs. If you can, uncheck it,
If you can't, change the home page to what you want and then uncheck one
and then reboot. Try IE. If the Web page changed, change it back and
then try msconfig again, rechecking the last one and unchecking the
next. Keep doing this until you find the culprit.
You might also want to look at this little program. I haven't tried it,
but I've read encouraging reports:
http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/
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Frank,
thanks for your suggestion. I checked it. However, I'm afraid, this is
not what I'm looking for.
You see, I have McAfee AntiSpay, VirusScan, Adaware, SpyBot, etc. I
think, I'm protected as much, as I can. The only thing I need is to
find a place where the default home page address is stored on my HD. Is
it so difficult to find it? I even would be willing to switch back to
the REAL default set by MS, but am unable to...
Ilya
message How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch
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My system was infected with Naupoint and my default home page was
changed to
http://hp.naupoint.com. I got reed of Naupoint and am
using a MSN home page, but the default page is still Naupoint. Where
is the default address is nested? How to change it to whatever I
want, or to a default MS Win XP? When I go to Tools> Internet
Options> programs> and press Reset Web Settings, the current home
page switches to Naupoint.
I'll appreciate assistance in finding and removing this address.
