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Old 12-23-2003, 10:04 PM   #2
Larry_OHF
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Midlands, South Carolina
Age: 48
Posts: 14,759
It keeps defaulting back because you have not cleaned all the little buggers out of the system yet. I have had this happen before. First, you can run stuff like Spybot, which has a box to check or uncheck that locks or unlocks your homepage from being tampered with...and can find the spyware that is still in the system. Stuff like "hijack this" from spywareinfo.com can help you locate the bad strings and rid you of them...

Of course, you can go into the registry and type into the "find" box the name of the file that you know must be hiding in there somewhere, then delete it...but be careful of what you are deleting. Not everything that you find may be associated with the bug.

Go to Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup to see if the .exe for this homepage is there. I found one there before.

Also, from that website I mentioned...you can get a program that protects your homepage from being changed without your permission. It lets you know something is trying to take over and gives you the option to say accept of deny.
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