IE 6 Home Page changes

[Todd]

I have IE 6 and Win ME and caught a virus that my AV
program found and healed. The Problem is that my home page
has changed and I can't get the new default home page to
change. In Internet Options, I can make the change to my
preferred home page and it appears to accept it, but when
I open up Internet Options again, it's back to where it
was. I tried to change the settings in Registry Editor
and, again, the same thing happens, I can delete the
improper home page settings, but they go right back to
where they were after, apparently, being
deleted.
Any Suggestions?
Thanks

 

[Frank Domurad]

The same problem is happening to me. I have caught a
virus called isearch which locks my View Tools options.
Has anyone responded to you with assistance?

 

[oops!!]

You may need to fix your registry after that:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairTabs.reg
1) Restores the missing Tabs in IE (usually spyware related)
2) Unlocks the grayed-out Home Page section
3) Removes the Administrator message in Internet Options

Download Ad-Aware from here:
http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Also excellent is SpyBot Search & Destroy available here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Even if Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D are similar, they do clean different things.
You should have both of them and use REGULARLY.

You can also install "preventive" software that will help you control these
nasties:

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Avoids malicious Active X installs.
Advantage: no system resources used!!!
Just download, install and UPDATE.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Monitors for attempts to install malicious software.

All of them extremely useful but you must keep them UPDATED.

Zee