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by koko122333

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i am running w xp pro and laitlly the start page of IE keeps changing. i have the spybote on my pc and the option "lock startup page" is checked but it still cahnging the home page.
i can put it back to my page but the next time i reboot the pc
it will change again.(to the same one)
installed spywargard and every boot it tells me that the page changed, do you want to keep it or restore
please advice how can i delete the unwanted page to take over all the time forever. why the spybot doesnt privent it from changing
what to do to over come this problem ( do i need to go into the registry? where and what to do over there(
thank you very much

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by w2ktechman

I ran into this about a month ago. Neither Spybot Nor Ad-Aware had found the culprit. I had to manually look through the registry to find it. It was in a key marked HKEY_Local_Machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\? I forget but, I found some "friendly URLS" which seemed to be where the himepages pointerd to. I removed these and ran scans on each of them to find the directory of the program which called them.
But that is all I remember of that one, happy hunting.

by obersturnbanfuhrer

If your search pages have been redirected, re-establish the defaults:
a. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Change the Search Page value to:

http://home.microsoft.com/access/allinone.asp

and, if it exists, change the Search Bar value to:

http://search.msn.com/spbasic.htm

b. Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL

and change the default value to:

http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s

c. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search

Change the SearchAssistant value to:

http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm

and change the CustomizeSearch value to:

http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm

Hope it'll work (I quote those from geekgirls.com)

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