I would recommend the use of several antispyware applications such as Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, Bazooka Scanner, SpywareBlaster and Windows Defender. Also, I do not recommend using Internet Explorer unless absolutely necessary (Windows Updates, certain IE-only sites, etc). I recommend the use of Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari for web browsing as they are more secure and have more features.

If your homepage DOES get hijacked in Internet Explorer, Spybot Search & Destroy has an option to reset it to a page of your choice.

thanks these all good ideas.
Does anyone know how to install Cutenews?

IE page is frezing suddenly
Stop anything from making it ur homepage!

In My Home Page , I am using a spin ball where it spins till the page gets loaded.In IE, when I click on any other link or tabs then it loads the corresponding link or page.But when I click on the link or tabs when the spin ball is spinning the page looks like freezing(that is spin ball stops spinning & status bar also stops)still the page is getting loaded.When there is large data this senerio looks like the page is getting freezed.
Atleast if I get status bar it may solve my probelm.

-reply by veerendra