Originally posted by Maverick
Does this involve resetting your home page every time you shut down yout PC as well??
I have looked for the cookie or whatever that did this but am ready to format again at this point. That will be the second time this week alone.
you have common spyware/ pornbot junk in your regestry
Deleate all your cookies/temp files...
then go to start/run/ msconfig /startup ......
look for the offending programs that shouldnt be there disable them . do not restart .. write down the program thats causing this " as example C:/windows/ startup/spammypornbot.exe "
go to start /find/ files,folders type in the offending exe search then delete these nasty things.
your favorites list should be full of this junk too... deleate those in there also . do a disk cleanup again ..reset your browser to Msn or what ever...
then restart
this is one way to get rid of this ....
anouther way is to go to add/ remove programs and remove it that way ... but sometimes its not always there, and if it is it doesnt get it all .
I cant guarrentee that this is your problem but this is a common cause of browser homepage getting changed ...
If you install a popup stopper and configure your active X to trusted sites only / prompt
along with turning off java scripting it will ussually stop this from happening . this also prevents the Qhost trojan from getting you.
I went and looked at MS updates for IE today and i havent seen a correct patch for this .... (I only checked for win 98se) my XP is on my pc at work...