I've had it with IE whatever version.
Yesterday after I found the P2 Asimo stuff, I was looking
for something with Google. The usual dead sites showed up
and I thought nothing of it.
Last night I went to look for something and my homepage
was redirected to an unwanted search engine. I can't get
rid of it, even with spyware eliminating software.
If I save the homepage and log out  as the current user and
log in again, the homepage is always redirected to the stupid
search engine. I have done everything possible, even getting
a service pack upgrade from Microsoft, but it is still there.
I eliminated or moved suspect files to another folder, but it
still exists.
I am going to search the entire drive for some specific byte patterns and
find out what file that thing sits in.

I downloaded Mozilla and I think I will kiss that IE shit good-bye
along with some other things.
Mozilla has a built in popup blocker and is extremely secure.
It works fine here and elsewhere.   :D/

Den, its a registry edit. usually software called hijack this will repair that for you.

see the attachment in the next post

try this

you will have to unzip it, the extension .exe is not allowed. (for good reason I bet)

click the config button to set the default search engines.....

Thanks Landman, that did the trick.

A line like "Run regedit -s sys.reg"  was writing to the registry to hijack the homepage.
It saved me a lot of time looking around.
I also found some .hta files which is another popular hijacking method.

Thank you Landman ! It's useful !

(And Den       , If you spent your nights on PORN SITES this could happen...        ... shame shame shame.... )

Switched to mozilla not too long ago, after having been an IE man for years.
Go mozilla!  

Porn sites ?   
Me ?      
     
I don't look at such things...