Re: How to change home page?

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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