Re: How to change home page?

"David Morgan (MAMS)" <findme@xxxxxxxxxxxx/Odm> wrote in message
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"Sudy Nim" <pseudonym@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message...

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


Feel free to remove *any* ATT or Yahoo! installed programs... also remove
"True Switch" if they have installed that as well. None of these are needed.

The Yahoo! 'toobar' is it's own little breed of spyware, allowing Yahoo to
follow
your search and surf habits via your IP address. If you need Yahoo, you can
simply surf to Yahoo, or hopefully re-set this as your home page if you have a
Yahoo e-mail account and that's more convenient for you.... but the software
simply isn't needed -- and now that ATT and Yahoo have merged, there are a
number of little privacy issues like this.

I venture to say, once it's out of there... you will be able to reset your
home
page with ease or someone here will continue to work with you to edit that
registry key.

The main thing (in my humble opinion) is, don't let anyone tell you that they
won't support IE6 just because it's running on Win98SE... it's in a manual
*somewhere,* or someone around here will be glad to help.

By the way, I'm posting on a 2.6 GHz P-IV with a gig of ram (any more is
wasted on 98) running Win-98SE and IE6 and OE6.... and I use no A/V
protection... I simply keep those cookies and temp files emptied after
every surfing session and run Ad Aware every so often.

Why ? Because it's a fine platform that is insanely easy to manually scan
through folders and detect alterations on your own.... there's only one folder
for cookies, only one folder for Temp files, one folder for IE temp cache,
only
one programs folder, etc., etc.. As long as you're a single user or don't
mind
others at home having access to the PC, Win98SE will remain viable until you
need serious hardware replacement and can no longer find printers and such
that support 98... and even then, the 'used' PC & parts store can be a
saviour.

Please let us know what happens after removal.

Cheers,

DM


No luck, I removed the program ATT -AACE, cleaned out cookies, temp files etc.
and ran Spybot and Ad-Aware, scanreg/fix/opt. Restarted in Safe Mode and IE
address was correct http://my.att.net however when w98 was started the address
changed back to www.att.net and the browser was locked. When browser opened the
top banner read, "AT&T - Microsoft Internet Explorer."

Ad-Watch Event Log caught the following at startup:

3/22/08 9:29:07 AM - Registry modification detected
Root: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\internet Explorer\Main
Value: Local Page
Data: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\blank.htm
New Data:NO

3/22/08 9:29:07 AM - Registry modification detected
Root: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\internet Explorer\Main
Value: Local Page
Data: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\blank.htm
New Data:

3/22/08 9:29:07 AM - 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/

BUT, when I looked the registry Value data is back to http://www.att.net
Web Page Address is: http://my.att.net/s/s.dll?spage=cg/news/inter_31708.html
(window locked)!

The only thing left is "Yahoo! Install Manager" in the Add/Remove Programs
Properties list which I will remove next and see what happens?



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