[Kellan]

Okay, so I'm trying to set my homepage and I find that some dumbass website has already changed it to some equally dumbass search engine page. So I change it back to what I want. Okay, that works.

I restart the computer. I open up IE. It's back on the same bloody search engine website. I change it again. It works, for the time being.

I restart the computer. I open up IE. It's back on the same....

Anyway, you can see my problem here. I don't want this page as my homepage, and yet I can't seem to be rid of it. This is in spite of deleting my history and temporary internet files, resetting the page (pressing apply and everything, yes) and it working until the computer is rebooted.

Any suggestion as to what's causing this bizarrety? It's annoying me, though atleast it's not hard-core animal pr0n, which would be more *ahem* difficult to explain to my family....

Anyway, I want the freedom to choose my own homepage, dammit!

[Styxx]

Check your startup configurations and your autoexec file, there might be something messing with the settings there...

[Kellan]

Okay, I'll give it a look.

[Alikchi]

I have this problem too >_< except my homepage is some Fortunecity site that doesn't exist. I have become well acquainted with their 404 error site in the past 4 months.

[CP5670]

Sounds like something that loads up with the computer, like one of those "pseudoviruses" that are more annoying than harmful. The places to look for these things would be autoexec.bat, the msconfig startup tab, and the programs/startup folder in the start menu. Also, open up regedit and search for the URL in there; if any instances show up, try to change it to something else.

[phreak]

good thing my homepage is set to about:blank

[Galemp]

I prefer about:Welcome%20to%20the%20Internet,%20Peter.

[CP5670]

I would use the about:blank thing but it is too bright on the eyes for me when I get on the computer in the nights, so I just created a basic blank page with a black background and nothing else on it and set it to that.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by CP5670
I would use the about:blank thing but it is too bright on the eyes for me when I get on the computer in the nights, so I just created a basic blank page with a black background and nothing else on it and set it to that.

You mean you don't have HLP set as your homepage!?! Why, you indescribable bastard!!

[Kellan]

Update: after a brief search through regedit, I think that I've fixed the problem. Thanks for all the suggestions and help.

[Alikchi]

How?
I think pseudovirus is the word. All my JPEGs are turned into Visual Basic files of the virus, and my MP3s are copied into VB of the virus of the same name. Or something.

[TheCelestialOne]

Originally posted by Alikchi
How?
I think pseudovirus is the word. All my JPEGs are turned into Visual Basic files of the virus, and my MP3s are copied into VB of the virus of the same name. Or something.

I had that virus once. It was annoying.

[Kellan]

Update #2: evidently I was jumping the gun when I said it was fixed. It wasn't, but I've now identified that something is messing with the registry file every time I restart - and just one bit, too.

Looks like a pseudovirus - I guess my virus definitions are out of date, so I'll update them before I do anything else.

[Bobboau]

try running a "find files containing text" searching for the domain name of the site, I remember having something like this once

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Bobboau
try running a "find files containing text" searching for the domain name of the site, I remember having something like this once

Interesting...my system.dat and user.dat files allegedly contain the domain name. I haven't looked into them yet, but I will now.

Thanks.

[Bobboau]

my problem was there was some weirdly named file somewere, that IE was reading