Home page keeps clearing

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Burt

Can anybody help me with this? Once in a while when I
open up my browser, my set home page disappers. Instead,
only "http://" appears in the address bar. I check my
Internet Options to see what happened to my set home page
and it keeps clearing. Anybody know why this happens? I
don't clear my temp files, history, etc. so I'm wondering
why this happens. Thanks in advance.
 
Burt said:
Can anybody help me with this? Once in a while when I
open up my browser, my set home page disappers. Instead,
only "http://" appears in the address bar. I check my
Internet Options to see what happened to my set home page
and it keeps clearing. Anybody know why this happens? I
don't clear my temp files, history, etc. so I'm wondering
why this happens. Thanks in advance.
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"Cool Web Search" - Spyware!
Run this tool: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Unzip, hit the executable and follow the prompts.
Make sure that you have all instances of IE and OE closed.

For good measure, cleanup with Hijack This:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

HTH


--

siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
 
Burt said:
thank you very much siljaline. i'm not liking the new
changes in ie6. i'm thinking about downgrading...
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Burt,
*Don't* IE6 SP1 is the way you want to go and stay.
Believe me... the gang here will back me up on that, if you post the
same question here every day :-)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.asp

Things you can and should do to better protect yourself from Spyware!
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Run the Spyware scanner on a regular basis, just like your
anti-virus scanner!
http://www.lavasoftusa.com Ad-aware
http://security.kolla.de SpyBot

--

siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
 
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