Nice, I used to have problems with that. But spyware cleaners would be better definately if you could get rid of them. I use Ad-Aware plus my McAffee virus protection thingy. They've worked pretty good to keep my PC safe so far.

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nice trick. And as for spyware, I use Spybot Search and Destroy, its free and easy to use. Does the job quite well too....

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Maby that is why firefox keeps coming up with "Your homepage was changed" even when I never changed it? I have adaware and run it regularly. I also have zone alarm and zone labs security firewall. Now I use Opera. It is safer because there are no popups some of which when you accedently click them download stuff you don't want without asking you (this is a major glitch with Internet Explorer 7).
Thanks,
Sparkx

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I had this old computer that I was configuring to run a server, and whenever I typed a search term in the address bar or clicked a link from Google it directed to this random website. It completely messed up my Google results. I did a quick search for a Ad/Spyware scanner, typed the address in my browser (because Google links didn't work), and found one. I can't remember exactly which one I used, but I remember that it did the job. It found at least a half-dozen various spy/adware on the computer. Presto, gone. Now I can't get the address bar to search, but that's no big deal (especially since I use Firefox most of the time, and like I said, I don't use the computer much). It bugs me when these programs even exist.

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I made a shortcut on the desk top and wrote what was written on the first post but It still won't change. Er. Can someone help?

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I never knew you could stop that from happening, although I don't use Internet Explorer on my Windows installations anymore, I usually kill or cripple it permanently.

So this basically stops website and what not, from changing your home page?

I remember years ago where little things like this, used to be very annoying.

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You probably have a BHO that's hooking the browse requests to search engines. Use Hijackthis to get rid of those.



No, all this fix does is cause IE to ignore the homepage setting. When you pass the url as a parameter the browser goes to that url instead of your homepage. It does nothing to address the actual problem, and in fact, could help conceal the fact that your machine has been compromised.

 

 

 

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Basicly what your are doing is making a shortcut to a website, am I correct? This would help but I hardly ever see my homepage (in fact I don't think I have one). I use Opera and have it set so it opens up what I was doing the last time. I have a few sessions set for variuse tasks (Homework, website updates, forum posting ect.) I wouldn't recomend Internet Explorer, the new one (version 7) stoped working for my computer about a week after I downloaded it and I don't have any viriuses. Im not sure if Firefox can have it's homepage changed via virus but I'm sure there are a lot fewer viriuses for Firefox then there are for Internet Explorer. If it really bugs you, you should probably just switch to a better browser.
Thanks,
Sparkx

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I often got Adware and Spyware with my Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta. I don't know what's happening. I've done to tightly configure my security settings. I'm using AVG Free Edition.

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How the hell do you get adware in firefox "accidentally"?? This seems like you either messed something up bad or someone is messing with you.

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