Homepage hostile takeover-need help!

[Neverhoodian]

Well, it seems like a web site likes our family computer SOOOO much that it's decided to make themselves our homepage...WITHOUT OUR CONSENT! To make matters worse, we can't change the homepage settings. The option to change the homepage has been grayed out in our Internet Options menu.

 

To all you computer-savvy Lucasforums members, please tell me how to change the homepage! It'd be greatly appreciated.

 

The internet browser is Internet Explorer 6.0, if that's any help to you guys.

[Boba Rhett]

Download and update Adaware as soon as you can. As well as Spybot Search and Destory. They should catch the hijackers.

[-st-carebear]

Don't worry neverhoodian

 

remember me?

 

 

it a very clear sign that u got infected with those somewhat browser hijacker.etc

 

and here a qucik solution for now

 

if you are using internet explorer

 

open a notepad

 

and paste this in

 

REGEDIT4

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]

"Start Page"="type ur homepage here"

 

and save with a .reg extension

 

and apply it to the registry

 

and mean while to prevent such things happen again,

 

you should download free anti spyware programs like spybot ,adaware

 

and also spyware blaster

 

and spyware guard

 

(use a search engine to find it urself or private msg me )

 

 

and if you have anymore problems

after trying the following methods

or i forgotten to mention something?

 

then feel free to e-mail me or private msg me

 

 

hope that help u

[Neverhoodian]

Thanks guys, everything's under control now. I downloaded Adaware and it found the offending file in the scan. The homepage is back to what it was before this whole incident.

 

Again, thank you! Here, have a Jawa.