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by shanghai sam

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Hi, now and then I receive anon email and without knowing it I click open only to discover that it redirect me to a XXX web site.

This web site will give me a dialog box to either close the site or save it as a bookmark. Whether I choose Yes or Cancel it will automatically go into my Favorite and also make that site as my Startpage in IE 5.

I remove the site from my start page and from the favorite but on the next start up of the IE 5 it will automatically reinstate it self.

Is there a way to modify the registry to avoid such thing to happen?

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by blackcurrant

Hi

I don't know which part of the Registry you would have to edit, but maybe this is an alternative...

I don't know what email program you are using, but I assume you can associate, or break an association, to IE or other web browser from within the email prog itself. Can you configure your program not to call IE? I have had to do this in the past (using Pegasus Mail), and it wasn't much hassle to simply paste an address from an email into IE when I required it.

Hope this helps

by thechas

You can try installing Lavasoft's AdAware software. This sounds like a form of add ware, and they may be able to help you remove it.
The site is www.lavasoftusa.com

If you are running W98 or later, you can use msconfig (type msconfig in the runbox) to check for and disable programs that run at startup.

I also saw a program to prevent web sites from changing your home page. I think it was in the download of the day section of www.emazing.com

Searching and editing the registry is notfor everyone. WARNING!!! IMPROPER REGISTRY EDITING CAN DISABLE YOUR COMPUTER!!! PROCEEDE WITH CAUTION. IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO BACK UP THE REGISTRY BEFROE EDITING IT.

To check for the program in the registry, open regedit (run box).
Use the search function in the edit menu. Search for runonce
When search finds a runonce look up the tree, and see what is in the run, runonce, and runonceexcept branches.
If you find something that looks suspect, copy down the exact wording of the key. You should be able to safely delete the key. At worst, you will disable a program, and need to re-install it, or add the key back in.

I would also search for the name of the website, and delete any references to it from the registry.

After you exit regedit, search for the program file that was called by the registry key.
If you are certian that this is the program that causes the problem, you can delete it.
If you are not sure, just move it to another folder.
Boot and see if the problem iscorrected, and that you have no new problems.

by d_v ant

One other thing, instead of trying to click cancel, just click on the X in the top right corner to close the window. I use a Pop-up killer program to close any unwanted windows from IE. There are many available. The one I use is from AnalogX.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm
If you go to www.download.com and search for pop up killers, you will find a lot more.
I also use filters for my e-mail and when I receive mails that I don't want to have repeated, I put them in my filter list. Look in the help file for your e-mail client and there should be direction on how to do this. You could also talk with your ISP about blocking them.

Hope this helps some.

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