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waynesworld
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Home page hijacked ?
      #387612 - Sun Mar 09 2008 05:05 PM

When i open up IE my home page is defaulting to a Microsoft download page , not my prefered Virgin homepage, i have been into Internet options and reset to Virgin but when i restart it goes straight back to the Microsoft IE7 download page. Any ideas ? .Cheers WW.

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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: waynesworld]
      #387616 - Sun Mar 09 2008 05:51 PM

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i have been into Internet options and reset to Virgin




Not sure what method you're using , so if it's not this way give it a try. Open the home page you wish to use and then go to Internet Options and click the "use current" button > apply > OK.


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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: FifeFlyer]
      #387647 - Sun Mar 09 2008 08:23 PM

Have tried it again as you described,but when i restarted it went back to the same webpage again. This is it if it helps http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: waynesworld]
      #387653 - Sun Mar 09 2008 09:00 PM

Strange. Give this a try : open I.E. and open a new blank tab . Now stay in that tab and type webuser into the address bar. Click the green arrow and open the webuser site. With the site open click on the arrow on the right hand side of the little house on the I.E. toolbar. From the drop down box click on "Add or Change Homepage". From the three options offered in the options box that opens , put a tick beside "use this webpage as your only homepage" and click yes. Restart I.E. and restart.

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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: waynesworld]
      #387685 - Mon Mar 10 2008 07:15 AM

This MS KB article may be useful if all else fails.

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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: Madeline]
      #387703 - Mon Mar 10 2008 01:23 PM

Have followed all instructions, but still defaults to webpage described in earlier post.Am very confused now

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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: waynesworld]
      #387729 - Mon Mar 10 2008 04:31 PM

And there's no software installed that may be set to prevent the home page being changed. Norton Antivirus , Spysweeper or something along those lines.

If not , i would post a log in the hijack forum. One of the experts there may be able to see from your log what's going on.


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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: FifeFlyer]
      #387782 - Mon Mar 10 2008 09:58 PM

cheers will give that a go and see what comes up.

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Re: Home page hijacked ? [Re: waynesworld]
      #387837 - Tue Mar 11 2008 08:02 AM

Good luck with your HJT log. I hope you get your problem sorted soon.

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