DU Computer Gurus....help!

[PhishWithLemon99]

Everytime I start my computer and open Internet Explorer, my home page settings keep being switched to www.websearch.net. How do I get rid of this?

Thanks

[Shrek]

1. In IE, click the "Tools" menu

Choose "Internet Options" at the bottom of the menu.

The first tab that pops up will allow you to change your home page.

[PhishWithLemon99]

4. Everytime I change it...

it just changes back to www.websearch.net when I reboot my computer.

[Kellanved]

7. check for spyware

I recommend Ad-Aware and Spybot.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://security.kolla.de

And maybe EZArmor for good measure:
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/

[Shrek]

8. Oh, that's different

In that case you probably picked up a nasty ad-bot or some other piece of junk that keeps resetting it without your permission.

Try using SpySweeper or AdAware and see if one of them can find something.

[Rick Myers]

5. That was bizzare

those posts were almost indentical!!!

:toast:

[Rick Myers]

2. In IE go to the Tools menu

and select Internet Options. At the top of the General page you can set your homepage to whatever you'd like...

[Oggy]

One idea

Have you changed the home page back to your choice in tools, internet options? It sounds like you've been to a site that changes things without your permission.

[trotsky]

3. Spyware/Adware

Get two programs:

AdAware (http://www.lavasoft.de)

and

Spybot S&D (http://security.kolla.de)

Update both, and run both. They will identify the crapware that causes these issues.

Also visit http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ for a quick scan.

[BigBigBear]

6. Go to

Tools/Internet Options/General, and just enter the page you want to see when you start explorer. Restart it, should be ok.

You probably picked up a nasty little cookie along the way, asking if you ant to set your page to this.

[RC]

9. More than you want to know...

http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm