Hijacked by Microsoft

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Dave

This morning when I went up on the Internet my Home Page had been
replaced by an advertisement urging me to switch to MSN as my Home
Page.

The website was: http://runonce.msn.com/en/runonce.asp

When someone installs something on my computer without my knowledge or
permission that, to me, is a malicious virus.

I am really ticked off at Microsoft for this and would like to know
how to block this practice in the future. Any suggestions will be
appreciated.

I am using:
Windows ME 4.90.3000
Zone Alarm Firewall
Ad-Aware 6.181
Spybot 1.3
AVG Anti Virus 6.0

and run updates at least once a week.
 
Hello Dave,

If you go to Tools, Internet options... is the home page changed? When
this pop up appeared did you choose your country or region which would have
then changed your settings to make this your new home page?
 
The Home Page was NOT changed

I did NOT choose the country or region . . . I clicked on my Home
Page Icon.

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Old . . . but still green and growing



| Hello Dave,
|
| If you go to Tools, Internet options... is the home page changed?
When
| this pop up appeared did you choose your country or region which
would have
| then changed your settings to make this your new home page?
|
| "Dave" wrote:
|
| > This morning when I went up on the Internet my Home Page had been
| > replaced by an advertisement urging me to switch to MSN as my Home
| > Page.
| >
| > The website was: http://runonce.msn.com/en/runonce.asp
| >
| > When someone installs something on my computer without my
knowledge or
| > permission that, to me, is a malicious virus.
| >
| > I am really ticked off at Microsoft for this and would like to
know
| > how to block this practice in the future. Any suggestions will be
| > appreciated.
| >
| > I am using:
| > Windows ME 4.90.3000
| > Zone Alarm Firewall
| > Ad-Aware 6.181
| > Spybot 1.3
| > AVG Anti Virus 6.0
| >
| > and run updates at least once a week.
| >
| > --
| > Old . . . but still green and growing
| >
| >
| >
 
I found several questions at the suggested Site but only one
suggestion for how to prevent the Microsoft scumware.

The suggestion was: "You can search for the reg key and export it. One
you have exported it, change it to the new site you want your users to
see the first time they
use IE. Then use a logon script to import this key into thier
registry."

The only problem I have with that is that I have no idea how to do
that. Why would I want to use "logon script", whatever that is, when
I can simply specify my home page in my IE options?


--

| See http://snipurl.com/a5qu
| --
| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
|
| Dave wrote:
| > This morning when I went up on the Internet my Home Page had been
| > replaced by an advertisement urging me to switch to MSN as my Home
| > Page.
| >
| > The website was: http://runonce.msn.com/en/runonce.asp
| >
| > When someone installs something on my computer without my
knowledge or
| > permission that, to me, is a malicious virus.
| >
| > I am really ticked off at Microsoft for this and would like to
know
| > how to block this practice in the future. Any suggestions will be
| > appreciated.
| >
| > I am using:
| > Windows ME 4.90.3000
| > Zone Alarm Firewall
| > Ad-Aware 6.181
| > Spybot 1.3
| > AVG Anti Virus 6.0
| >
| > and run updates at least once a week.
 
As is often the case, I put my mouth in motion before engaging my
brain. I have NOT installed or reinstalled either Windows ME of IE but
I did open my Control Panel and the Add/Remove Programs and ran the
Internet Explorer Repair utility.

That's where the runonce.msn program came from. I still don't like the
idea of Microsoft putting that on my computer but, at least, I know
where it came from.

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| This morning when I went up on the Internet my Home Page had been
| replaced by an advertisement urging me to switch to MSN as my Home
| Page.
|
| The website was: http://runonce.msn.com/en/runonce.asp
|
| When someone installs something on my computer without my knowledge
or
| permission that, to me, is a malicious virus.
|
| I am really ticked off at Microsoft for this and would like to know
| how to block this practice in the future. Any suggestions will be
| appreciated.
|
| I am using:
| Windows ME 4.90.3000
| Zone Alarm Firewall
| Ad-Aware 6.181
| Spybot 1.3
| AVG Anti Virus 6.0
|
| and run updates at least once a week.
|
| --
| Old . . . but still green and growing
|
|
 
I would just delete the key.
I found several questions at the suggested Site but only one
suggestion for how to prevent the Microsoft scumware.

The suggestion was: "You can search for the reg key and export it. One
you have exported it, change it to the new site you want your users to
see the first time they
use IE. Then use a logon script to import this key into thier
registry."

The only problem I have with that is that I have no idea how to do
that. Why would I want to use "logon script", whatever that is, when
I can simply specify my home page in my IE options?
Click to expand...
 
CrystalBall© tells me you upgraded to IE6 via a CD or download from your
ISP. The msn.com thingy was part of it and it's there because of a
marketing agreement between your ISP and MSN.
 
Thank you PA Bear, that site is very useful and I would recommend it to all
having problems with this as I am
 
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