HOME PAGE PROBLEMS

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Although I have set my home page to Yahoo.com, when I log
off, and log back in, the home page resets itself to
something else. I've scanned my computer for virus' but
nothing shows up. Any ideas?
 
It sound like a varient of the Trojan Horse Virus
StartPage-Q. It seems to want to infect key systems
executables, such as msinfo.exe. When the an infected app
runs it makes changes to the registry
and creates two files on the HDD (%WINDIR%\Default.css
(1260bytes) and %WINDIR%\Web\oslogo.bmp (1260bytes). I
found that deleting these files and making the registry
changes below should reverse its effects, but if you do
not have an up-to-date antivirus system then the problem
may return. I have not checked recently but Sophos were
working on a fix, so I imagine that most of the major anti-
virus players out there should have a fix by now.
But still try the entries below. (If you copy them into a
text file and change the .txt to .reg and then run that
file it will make the changes for you.)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
"Search"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?
prd=ie&ar=iesearch"
"SearchURL"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?
prd=ie&ar=iesearch"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://intranet.vaa.vtg/"
"Search Page"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?
prd=ie&ar=iesearch"
"Default_Search_URL"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.
dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch"
"Default_Page_URL"="http://intranet.vaa.vtg"
"Search Bar"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Search]
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/
{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"
"SearchAssistant"="http://ie.search.msn.com/
{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
"Search"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?
prd=ie&ar=iesearch"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main]
"Default_Page_URL"="http://Intranet.vaa.vtg"
"Default_Search_URL"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.
dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch"
"Search Page"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?
prd=ie&ar=iesearch"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://ie.search.msn.com/
{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/
{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"
 
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