If you cannot change your homepage back to what you want, it may be that your homepage was "taken over" or "hijacked". Please see the following for removal.

Use Ad-Aware 6

Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Download site: http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=506&cat=31

(from the site: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/)

You also need to see what is running in the startup area to see if the culprit lies in there too. See below. Start-Up Applications

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_all.php

Home Page - Changed Home Page Hijacking Also see:

• http://gmpservices.com/Articles/hijack.asp
• http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/
• http://www.cexx.org/hphijack.htm
• http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_h.htm

Home Page Hijacking section If this does not help, call HAL-PC at 713-993-3300 and ask for a volunteer to help you. Thank you for using HALNet.

E-mail me at mfoster@hal-pc.org with any comments you have and tell me what you want to see here.

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Last modified: 2003:08:22