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Home page setting in Internet Options

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by computer_excel

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In Windows XP Professional, SP1 I am not able to save the Home page setting in Internet Options. When I setup to start home page at http://www.yahoo.com and apply it and OK it. The home page setting would go back to about:blank and re-create undesirable web site on My favorite. Whenever I deleted all undesirable web sites from My Favorite it would add the same undesirable web site when I open up Internet Explorer.
I ran Norton AntiVirus 2005 for virus, spyware, and adwares. It unable to fix it. I ran Adware Pro, yet same result.

Where in Registry control the home page setting of Internet Options?

What is the best possible solution(s)for my problem?

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by ralphp

I'll first recommend the Parasites pages at http://www.aumha.org . One thing I can NOT emphasize enough - Download and install AdAware / Spybot S&D / Spywareblaster, and download IESpyAd (I'd recommend IESpyAd 2 so that the whole system is protected ... but either works). Update all three of the main programs. THEN - Reboot and scan in safe mode. Also, with AdAware - do an ADS scan if you're running NTFS. If this doesn't clean it, then it's dug down deep, and you'll need either a parallel install, or to dismount that drive and mount it as slave on another machine, to scan the registry without the OS running. Last and not least - Check the ratings on Norton. Last ten machines I had with Norton were eaten up with spyware, since a lot of the new trojans and viruses will infect Norton - or at least hobble it. Last case of Sober I had? Infected LUALL.EXE (the LiveUpdate module) so it would reinfect when Norton ran to pull an update! My advice is to ditch it, and get a competent AV that's not quite so high profile and not as apt to be hijacked by the trojans and viruses.

by vicupdate

The best software to use, to resolve your problem, is "Microsoft Antispyware" (free download)

grtz
Vic

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