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botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
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?

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Try system restore.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited December 2003
    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?
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    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.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited December 2003
    bothered had this to say
    Did that Mondi, Thanks.

    D'oh!
    Sorry BLACKHAWK. I'll see how it goes.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Sounds like a browser hijacker. Download Spybot S&D and give it a whirl.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    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
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    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
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited December 2003
    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!
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    Tighter leash Bothered, tighter leash!
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    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. "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:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Routers, zone alarm pro, and antivirus doesn't stop spyware and hijacks. Heh.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited December 2003
    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-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited December 2003
    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:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect
    puts the bullwhip away
     Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    puts the bullwhip away
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited December 2003
    Rather the bull whip than getting Snuffi out, Tee hee.
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