OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.  Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the registry, it finds its way back again.    I'll track it down eventually but in the mean time, is there a way to disable the changing of the home page on IE, so while I might not get rid of this damn application, at least it can't keep on altering my home page?   (My home page is set to the home page of my intranet, which has a whole screen full of my oft-used links) Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com

Mike Kear wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- You could try using SpyBot S&D, a pretty good anti-spyware thingie. http://www.safer-networking.de/ AFAIK it has an option to force your startpage to a certain URL, hope it works for you. Gerry.

I definatly second Spybot S&D.  The new version (1.3) seems to be a lot more effictive at blocking such things.  fixmy (dot) net is another place you can obtain it along with more spyware info.. -mike ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

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The online tests at www.pcpitstop.com <http://www.pcpitstop.com/>;  may find some of the simpler security holes for you: they'll automatically (if you choose) set IE and Outlook to more secure settings.  It's not a really spyware/virus scanner (although they do offer an online virus scanner) but rather a general system health check. Well worth running every once in a while or after you've rebuilt. Jim Davis   _____ Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page I suggest running spybot-search and destroy - and increasing the security level of IE.

I lied - it appears they have begun offering an online spyware/adware checker at pcpitstop.com Jim Davis   _____ Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page The online tests at www.pcpitstop.com <http://www.pcpitstop.com/>;  may find some of the simpler security holes for you: they'll automatically (if you choose) set IE and Outlook to more secure settings.  It's not a really spyware/virus scanner (although they do offer an online virus scanner) but rather a general system health check. Well worth running every once in a while or after you've rebuilt. Jim Davis

I use Ad Aware  http://www.ad-aware.com  It's very good. Dan   ( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm   looking for )   There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my   browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.  Every time I   delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the registry, it   finds its way back again.    I'll track it down eventually but in the mean   time, is there a way to disable the changing of the home page on IE, so   while I might not get rid of this damn application, at least it can't keep   on altering my home page?     (My home page is set to the home page of my intranet, which has a whole   screen full of my oft-used links)   Cheers   Mike Kear   AFP Webworks   Windsor, NSW, Australia   http://afpwebworks.com

( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.  Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the registry, it finds its way back again.    I'll track it down eventually but in the mean time, is there a way to disable the changing of the home page on IE, so while I might not get rid of this damn application, at least it can't keep on altering my home page?   (My home page is set to the home page of my intranet, which has a whole screen full of my oft-used links) Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com

I too use AdAware 6.0 (along with the memory resident Ad-Watch) in addition to Symantec virus protection software. Further I also have a firewall in place as provided by my Belkin wireless router.  The entire set of product types are required to provide a good defense to the various intruders our there. Even with this in place, I still get spam email from folks that use different source addresses which rules are hard to create to block. An excellent tool to determine how "stealth" you are in at http://www.pcflank.com/ -- see set of available test in upper left hand menu entitled: "Test your System" Happy trails...