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

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair.... :-s

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.....

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair.... :-s

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  [-X  [-X  [-X , If you spent your nights on PORN SITES this could happen...   [-(  [-(  [-( ... shame shame shame.... )

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

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Every night will have a day.
Even forever must come to an end. I think...

[-X
Porn sites ? 8-[  8-[
Me ?  :whistle:  :whistle:  :whistle:
 :-#  :-#  :-#
I don't look at such things... :^o
 :prrr: