Home page lockup problem

Never thought I would get into this trouble again.
I have checked for external virus and ran Ad-aware
and Spybot. But nothing unusual showed up.

As soon as I finish loading WinXP Pro on this PC,
the home page locked up to www.msn.com ...
How do I fix this problem ? Please help.

 

PA Bear has said the following about locked up home pages:

Several Spybot Tools (e.g., Tea Timer) & Settings (e.g., Immunize) could be
disallowing the change. If Ad-Watch is enabled, it definitely disallows the
change.

 

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/41.html


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Hello Sandi,

I have just read through http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/41.html
and the following published comments :-
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Protective software
Check your protective software (especially antispyware and antivirus). Spybot Search and Destroy, for example, has an
"immunize" feature that will lock your home page. Other products that may lock your home page including Ad-aware's
Ad-Watch, SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan and Antispyware, and both versions of Zone
Alarm.
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During loading XP Pro on a clean formatted
drive, to stay free of malware and viruses,
I usually load the Zone Alarm and Norton
AntiVirus, before I even download the IE
updates. Well, trust is gone now. I have to
start from the beginning again !
Thank you for your help.

CB

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| Sandi Hardmeier
| Microsoft MVP since 1999
| http://www.ie-vista.com
| Internet Explorer Community
| http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
| The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.
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| | > Never thought I would get into this trouble again.
| > I have checked for external virus and ran Ad-aware
| > and Spybot. But nothing unusual showed up.
| >
| > As soon as I finish loading WinXP Pro on this PC,
| > the home page locked up to www.msn.com ...
| > How do I fix this problem ? Please help.
| >
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|

 

Hello Rocky,
I am re-loading the XP Pro again.
Hope to keep the PC 'saviors'
away during loading.
Thanks for the info.
CB

| PA Bear has said the following about locked up home pages:
|
| Several Spybot Tools (e.g., Tea Timer) & Settings (e.g., Immunize) could be
| disallowing the change. If Ad-Watch is enabled, it definitely disallows the
| change.
|
|
| "CharBhasha" wrote:
|
| > Never thought I would get into this trouble again.
| > I have checked for external virus and ran Ad-aware
| > and Spybot. But nothing unusual showed up.
| >
| > As soon as I finish loading WinXP Pro on this PC,
| > the home page locked up to www.msn.com ...
| > How do I fix this problem ? Please help.
| >
| >
| >

 

Just to correct the information relating to Spybot: It is not the immunize
feature that locks the IE home page, but the option, in advanced mode, Tools
tab, IE tweaks, where there is an option to lock home page. Uncheck that and
it won't lock it. The immunize feature sets kill bits for bad activeX in the
registry and places sites in its database into restricted zone (similar to
spywareblaster).

 

JR,
Good tip. I am so scared of these wonderful
software, that I am not going to load any of
them up until the end of loading all my working
software. Thanks.
CB

 

Good point. Thanks J.

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.