home page override

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Laura Morris

I have just updated to ie6.0, windows 98 updates,
earthlink newest versionstotal access 2000, lavasoft
spyware, McAfee. I have run virus scans and spy ware
scans and everything that is detectable has been removed.
But I have a program file named MastakSoft that is over
riding my internet home page. I can take it off and over-
ride it in the internet options but when I leave and log
back on it is still there. I deleted the program from the
program file and it just comes right back. There is
nothing I can find to uninstall the program because it
must be hidden somewhere else. This is a foreign web
page, looks Russian text. In the bottom tool bar a smiley
face is always there and this takes me to another Russian
page at www.rax.ru. How do I delete these communist
bastards?
 
Laura Morris said:
I have just updated to ie6.0, windows 98 updates,
earthlink newest versionstotal access 2000, lavasoft
spyware, McAfee. I have run virus scans and spy ware
scans and everything that is detectable has been removed.
But I have a program file named MastakSoft that is over
riding my internet home page. I can take it off and over-
ride it in the internet options but when I leave and log
back on it is still there. I deleted the program from the
program file and it just comes right back. There is
nothing I can find to uninstall the program because it
must be hidden somewhere else. This is a foreign web
page, looks Russian text. In the bottom tool bar a smiley
face is always there and this takes me to another Russian
page at www.rax.ru. How do I delete these communist
bastards?
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"Some ISP's provide a customised version of IE. Some Web pages will also
reset your home page and do this. One of the customisations they might make
is to disable the ability to change the home page, so that you are forced to
use their home page. You can re-enable this by making a small change in the
Windows registry.

In Regedit, navigate to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel

In the right-hand pane, right-click the "HomePage" value, then select
Modify. Change it to: 00 00 00 00

Also change either or these to zero 0 instead of 1 if present:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explo
rer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001


If you don't have this key, browse to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

and in the right hand pane, double click "Local Page" and set equal to
"C:\WINDOWS\System\blank.htm" (no quotes) which will hopefully set your Home
Page to blank and then allow you to subsequently modify it using Internet
Options.

Exit regedit and reboot.

When you reboot, you should be able to change the home page again.

Some pages will also download a program which keeps changing it back. Go to
Start | Run and type:
msconfig
and press <Enter> or click OK. Go to the Startup tab.
See if you can identify any suspicious programs. If you can, uncheck it, If
you can't, change the home page to what you want and then uncheck one and
then reboot. Try IE. If the Web page changed, change it back and then try
msconfig again, rechecking the last one and unchecking the next. Keep doing
this until you find the culprit.
 
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