MSN stuck as home page

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madmaven · #1 Post by **madmaven** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:38 pm

I have tried everything I can think of Of course I went to Tools options, and set google. com and as soon as I reboot it comes back with msn.com
I ran the windows defender and it found nothing, the machine runs great, not slow or anything actually has minimal use since a clean install of XP ran antivirus and nothing, I turned off system restore, cleaned out cookies, temp files, history, emptied perfetch, and still it comes back MSN. then I upgraded to IE7 in the hopes it would fix it now it is gomsn.com yada yada yada. I read the microsoft article about the general problem and went in the registry but the aritcle is impercise and says to delete a value but is vague on which value. I changed the URL value in registry to google but still no help.
I have no other ideas and have not seen this in articles, or forums, does anyone know of a fix for this annoying problem.???
thanks in advanceThis is on an A31 running XP Pro with all the updates and avast antivirus .
MM
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#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:42 pm

Do you have any malware/spyware/adware programs running? It sounds like there's a process that's running which prevents your home page from being changed (one of the most common things that malware will try to do).

madmaven · #3 Post by **madmaven** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:13 pm

Defender comes up clean every time I run it. I will probably put on avg antispy next tomorrow and test it with that . I do not see anything al all that could have hijacked it. and I dont think that there is any program similar to symantec that would be blocking the change as a protective measure.??

arni · #4 Post by **arni** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:38 am

Check windows defender as it also will activly prohit any change of the startup homepage in ie. Go to quaratined items and look what defender actually is doing.

#5 Post by **jdhurst** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:16 am

If you are using Access Connections, it has a home page setting that overrides what you put in the browser. ... JD Hurst

madmaven · #6 Post by **madmaven** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:24 pm

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR KNOWLEDGE!!!
Thank you so very much. I should have known! I have gotten in trouble with wifi with the access connections utility and deleted it off that machine. As soon as I uninstalled it I was ale to change the home page. I will remember that one.
mm

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