Homepage URL

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Bob

My homepage URL is being set each time I power cycle my
machine. I can go and change the URL through the options
menu and through regedit and the result is always the
same. Until I power cycle I am just fine. After re-
booting my changes are gone.

I'm stumped and could really use some help in finding out
how it's getting changed automatically and how to stop it
form happening.

Thanks in advance.
 
This has been a FAQ on this newsgroup. See this site for possible help and more information:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/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
 
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