Stop web pages from changing home and search page

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Dave Niemeyer

Some web sites, like www.searching.com offer to make themselves the homepage
or search page. Then I get wind of it and filter that page out on our
filter, then the affected machines, upon going to IE, search for a web page
that can't be found and so it opens 20 or 30 windows of IE before crashing
the OS. How can I keep the same homepage and search page and not allow them
to be changed?

Here is apparently the javascript that does this:
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document.body.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';
document.body.setHomePage('http://www.searching.net'); }
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It asks one time if you want that to be the home page, usually upon leaving
that site. Easy solution it to tell everyone to say no, but we've been
telling kids to "just say no to drugs" for years..... Some sites also offer
to change your search page for you.

Any ideas on how to lock the home and search page? I've seen the part of
the main adm file that says to set the home page but I also want to set in
stone the 'search' page.
Thanks.
Dave Niemeyer
 
Hello Dave,

Great question. I did some quick playing around and found that you can
modify the permissions on the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

This is where the search and the home page entries are stored. Unfortunately
the "Main" registry key houses many IE settings. So those wont be able to be
changed either.

I removed System-Full Control and Administrators-Full Control and left my
own account with just Read Access. After making these changes I was not able
to change the search or home page (called Start Page in registry).

Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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