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My home page has been changed. I installed Spy Doctor on
my machine and cleared all the malicious files but I
still cannot change my home page. Does this mean that
something has changed my registry files? If so, can
anyone give me the steps to correct it. I'm pretty good
on the computer but altering the registry files scares
me. If you can help, please be as detailed as possible.

Thanks a million.
 
Do you mean you can't change it, at all, or that you change it and it changes
back to the page you don't want?
 
If you installed SpyDoctor (not Spyware Doctor), I would choose something
else:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

See this site for possible help and more information:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#home_page

In addition to the info there, check your StartUp folder for any programs
that look suspicious. If no joy, go to Start, Run, type in "msconfig" (no
quotes), click Okay, go to the StartUp tab, and look for any line there that
look suspicious. You probably went to a web site and clicked on something
that made the additions/changes to your registry or added a script to your
system that caused this problem. This can also be caused by running an
email attachment or clicking on something in a HTML email.

You may also want to check out StartPage Guard -
http://pjwalczak.com/spguard/index.php
StartPage Guard protects your PC from cyberscam, by monitoring status of
your internet browser StartPage and preventing it from any unauthorized
changes.

And to keep from having to manually edit the registry to unlock your
homepage settings, try this little script by Doug Knox, MS MVP:
http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts_desc/nosethomepage.htm

More information here: http://www.cexx.org/hphijack.htm
 
donnawright said:
I can change it but it keeps returning to about:blank.
Click to expand...

First, if you don't have WinXP SP2, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair
damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
save it because you might need to repair the Winsock 2 stacks after removing
the culprit.
For WinXP SP2 this command will restore the Winsock stacks if you can't
connect after clearing the malware.
Then see
How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

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