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Jim G.

Running XP Home. An alien start page has replaced my
chosen start page in IE. I've searched the registry and
removed everything I could find identified with the
alien, but that only works for the remainder of the
particular session. The alien returns the next time I
start the computer. Has anyone found a method of
permanently removing the violator without a drive format?
 
Hi

Try any/all of the following programs to check for and delete any spyware
that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| Running XP Home. An alien start page has replaced my
| chosen start page in IE. I've searched the registry and
| removed everything I could find identified with the
| alien, but that only works for the remainder of the
| particular session. The alien returns the next time I
| start the computer. Has anyone found a method of
| permanently removing the violator without a drive format?
 
Besides the startup folder there are several places in the registry that
should be checked they are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run
" " " " "
" " Run
" " " " "
" " Run-
" " " " "
" " Run once

etc.


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