Changing the search page

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How can I change the search page that is used by IE6 when I type in an
invalid URL into the address bar? I installed a program recently that
changed this page to something that I don't want it to be, and I can't
figure out how to get it back to what it was before.

Thanks,
Jesse
www.davinci-mims.com
 
The crazy thing is that I've already been through this. I have checked
every place here that deals with the search page, and lots of others that
I've found while searching on the web. I'm pretty sure that it's a registry
entry somewhere, but I've changed all of them that I can find.

I'll check through this site again. I used SpyBot on my machine as soon as
I realized what had happened, and it removed a lot of junk, but it didn't
reset my search page. I've got LavaSoft too. I'll try that one.

Thanks,
Jesse

Don Varnau said:
Work through the solutions at:
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Don
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MVP IE/OE Newsgroup replies preferred, but e-mail address is...
don_04[at]varnau[dot]org

Anchorman said:
How can I change the search page that is used by IE6 when I type in an
invalid URL into the address bar? I installed a program recently that
changed this page to something that I don't want it to be, and I can't
figure out how to get it back to what it was before.

Thanks,
Jesse
www.davinci-mims.com
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Another note. The site you mentioned only deals with coolwebsearch, which
isn't my problem. My search page has been hijacked by Lycos. It goes to
search.lycos.com any time I type in an invalid url, and I can't find this
ANYWHERE in my registry, EXCEPT the Typed URL's section. It's almost like
they're using a special program of some sort to keyboard the data into the
Address bar. I just can't seem to figure this out.

Any other hints?

Thanks,
Jesse

Don Varnau said:
Work through the solutions at:
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Don
--
MVP IE/OE Newsgroup replies preferred, but e-mail address is...
don_04[at]varnau[dot]org

Anchorman said:
How can I change the search page that is used by IE6 when I type in an
invalid URL into the address bar? I installed a program recently that
changed this page to something that I don't want it to be, and I can't
figure out how to get it back to what it was before.

Thanks,
Jesse
www.davinci-mims.com
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Just for your information and everyone else's information, I finally have
the problem fixed. The problem was actually a program called ClearSearch.
I sent an e-mail complaint to Lycos, and to my surprise, they actually
responded with the following link
http://www.clear-search.com/Software/ClrSchUninstall.exe. This program
uninstalled the ClearSearch from my computer, and I seem to be back to
normal now.

BTW, I tried the latest Spy Bot, and it didn't catch this problem, but the
latest version of Lava Soft's Ad-Aware 6, did catch this problem, and a lot
more. So, I highly recommend Ad-Aware 6.

Just wanted to pass this along, just in case anyone else has run into this
problem.

Jesse

Don Varnau said:
Work through the solutions at:
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Don
--
MVP IE/OE Newsgroup replies preferred, but e-mail address is...
don_04[at]varnau[dot]org

Anchorman said:
How can I change the search page that is used by IE6 when I type in an
invalid URL into the address bar? I installed a program recently that
changed this page to something that I don't want it to be, and I can't
figure out how to get it back to what it was before.

Thanks,
Jesse
www.davinci-mims.com
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