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bothered
9 Dec 2003, 9:43am
I opened IE and had a differant home page, 777 search.com or something like that. I went to yahoo, my normal hp, and tried to set it as my home page. The options to set a home page were grayed out! I ran search and destroy and cleaned a bunch of stuff. I ran hijack this and found nothing so I rebooted. Now when I start IE it goes to a blank home page with 'about blank' in the address bar. I can go to yahoo and everything works fine but the home page options are still grayed out.
What do I need to do?
Black Hawk
9 Dec 2003, 9:52am
Try system restore.
bothered
9 Dec 2003, 10:06am
Did that Mondi, Thanks. It has got my home page back but the hp options are still grayed out. What else can I do to fix that?
Black Hawk
9 Dec 2003, 10:18am
bothered had this to say
Did that Mondi, Thanks.
:wtf: ...must be old age :crazy:

I personally have never had the problem. Maybe it changed some registry entry (I don't know which :sad2: ). Maybe you could try A browser extension like MyIE2 or Crazy Browser and see if you still have the problem. You could also try using Mozilla/Firebird. If you've got the time to spare, you could try a repair installation.
bothered
9 Dec 2003, 11:13am
bothered had this to say
Did that Mondi, Thanks.

D'oh!
Sorry BLACKHAWK. I'll see how it goes.
Kwitko
9 Dec 2003, 12:59pm
Sounds like a browser hijacker. Download Spybot S&D and give it a whirl.
Spinner
11 Dec 2003, 4:45am
Here's a couple of local links that might help shed some light on your problem:

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3514&highlight=homepage
http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6312&highlight=homepage
primesuspect
11 Dec 2003, 4:48am
Bothered, one day you and I are gonna get together and raise a glass to old times, when we used to ride the frontier, chasing those wild spyware bandits, shootin' our guns into the air, nabbin' browser rustlers, and makin' trouble.

Or at least we COULD if YOU WOULD STOP GETTING SPYWARE

grrrrr... i'm about to break out the bullwhip....... :D
Thrax
11 Dec 2003, 4:49am
You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
bothered
11 Dec 2003, 8:09am
But..but I have a router, Zone alarm pro and my anti virus. Why do they keep picking on me? I know, I'll blame the kids, They download stuff!
Spinner
11 Dec 2003, 10:33am
Tighter leash Bothered, tighter leash!
Kwitko
11 Dec 2003, 12:53pm
bothered had this to say
But..but I have a router, Zone alarm pro and my anti virus. Why do they keep picking on me? I know, I'll blame the kids, They download stuff!

So nip it in the bud, good sir, get thee to download SpywareBlaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html). "SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed."

This program is more invaluable to me than Spybot or Ad-Aware because if spyware can't be installed, there's no need to look for it.:thumbsup:
Thrax
11 Dec 2003, 1:31pm
Routers, zone alarm pro, and antivirus doesn't stop spyware and hijacks. Heh.
bothered
11 Dec 2003, 2:34pm
Cheers Mr Kitko (and everyone else)
Got and ran blaster. I looked in the tools and a box was checked preventing changing the home page. Unchecked it and now all is back to normal.
Thanks guys.
Josh-
11 Dec 2003, 3:46pm
Mr. Kwitko had this to say
Sounds like a browser hijacker. Download Spybot S&D and give it a whirl.

Beat me to it...

:eek2: :hrm:
primesuspect
11 Dec 2003, 3:56pm
/me puts the bullwhip away
bothered
11 Dec 2003, 6:08pm
Rather the bull whip than getting Snuffi out, Tee hee.