Re: How to change home page?

Disable Ad-Watch: http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t12393.html

Disable Spybot Tea Timer: http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=32409

Change the homepage.
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Sudy Nim wrote:
Hi David Morgan & Don,

In the hopes of reducing confusion I’ll try to answer you both at the same
time. I tried setting homepage to, Use Current, Use Default, Use Blank or
inserting Yahoo or whatever and no change would stick. Clicking “Apply” or
“OK” after a change made no difference. We are making headway as with your
combined help we might have discovered the what, and maybe the how. I am
using Spybot and Ad-Aware se Pro with the latest updates. I ran both and
they found nothing of importance. I also did total clean up of all cookies
and temp files and ran scanreg/fix/opt. I tried startup in Safe Mode
changed address to http://my.att.net but the wrong address returned with
the next w98 startup, however, Ad-Watch caught:

Ad-Watch Event Log
3/21/08 3:27:22 PM - Registry modification detected
Root: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\internet Explorer\Main
Value: Start Page
Data: http://www.att.net/
New Data: http://my.att.net

The registry Start Page showed the new address http://my.att.net but when I
re-opened IE I got that same AT&T message, again. Returning to the registry
Start Page it had changed back to the original setting http://www.att.net
apparently you are correct David, AT&T implanted a program, which is
altering the registry. And as you indicated the web page is hi-jacked
because the top of page always shows: “AT&T Microsoft Internet Explorer.”

In Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, there is program (ATT
–AACE) that I did not knowingly install. Doing a “Find File or Folders” ATT
–AACE contains at least one dll and a couple of exe. A search of the
Internet did not find that program.

I’ve been at this all day and I’m tired, so with a fresh start in the AM
(unless the wife has other plans) I will delete that program, hopefully
clean out the remnants and get back to you with the results. Thank you for
sticking with me through this problem.

Sudy Nim


"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
news:Om%235oz0iIHA.3740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
If you set your homepage to "Use Blank" or something else like Yahoo or
Google, does that change stick?

These and other third-party programs can lock the IE homepage. Examine the
settings of security/privacy/antispyware programs for the option to lock
homepage, lock IE control panel, lock IE settings, etc.
Spybot (Advanced Mode) Tools> IE Tweaks
Spybot- Teatimer
Ad-aware Pro
Norton AV 2006 (Web Browsing > Spyware protection)
McAfee AV or Antispyware
Spyware Blaster
Spysweeper
Zone Alarm- free and pro.

If you don't wish to dig through settings of whichever security/privacy
programs you have installed, you may be able to startup in Safe Mode,
change the homepage then restart the computer. That won't always work- an
earlier version of Zone Alarm free had to be uninstalled.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Sudy Nim" <pseudonym@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1twEj.51496$cQ1.22391@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My server is sending me this notice:
The AT&T Internet Service Home page URL has changed.
Please update your Internet Browser Home Page or Favorites immediately.

Because w98se is not supported by AT&T this change can not be made
regardless of my attempts. Is there a way I can block this notice that
prevents my home page from opening? TIA

.

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