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by barbara.jones

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My Windows 2000, IE 6.0 home page used to be www.microsoft.com. Yesterday, when I opened IE it redirected itself to www.topclicks.net. Ever since, whenever I try to get to www.microsoft.com, it redirects me to www.topclicks.net. I have deleted all cookies, offline files, history, etc. multiple times and still this happens. This also happens in SafeMode w/ Networking. I can go to other web sites, just not MS. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!!!

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by syscokid

It's not listed as being caused by a trojan, adware, or spyware so it's hard to track down. Anyway, I suspect a process is running at startup that hijacks attempts to connect to MSN.

Try downloading this little free tool called Autoruns.

www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#autoruns

It will search through Startup folders, .ini files and the registry and identify everything that runs at system startup. This should enable you to track down and delete the offending ite.

Good luck!

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