Internet Homepage problem?

[lazyitus]

Used to have Google as homepage - now defaulting to another search engine.

I've gone into internet options and typed in google as homepage but it keeps defaulting to the other.

Why won't it stay as Google - can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to cure it?

Ta
Lazy

[Plotloss]

Spyware.

Annoying isnt it?

Spybot/Adaware should sort it.

[lazyitus]

Cheers Plotloss - Lavasoft to the rescue !

[thepassenger]

lazyitus said:

Cheers Plotloss - Lavasoft to the rescue !

Get Spybot as well as Adaware. They use different engines and tend to spot stuff the other one missed.

Not their fault, Spyware is harder to scrape off than some viruses!

[lazyitus]

Cheers passenger.

[leorest]

thepassenger said:

Get Spybot as well as Adaware. They use different engines and tend to spot stuff the other one missed.

Spybot detects Adaware and gives a warning. Is there any problem with using the two together?

[Ballistic Banana]

Do you have to actually buy these programs? as in a trial they give you the cookies that are problems. can you not just delete them then?

BB

[rameshuk]

to save time ...


delete all your internet temp files & Cookies before you run the spyware scan.
This prevents all these really small (but numerous in number) files from slowing down the scan.

Change your win xp admin account name to something other than 'admin' .

Surf the internet with an ordinary account (Do not use the admin account)

[thepassenger]

leorest said:

thepassenger said:

Get Spybot as well as Adaware. They use different engines and tend to spot stuff the other one missed.

Spybot detects Adaware and gives a warning. Is there any problem with using the two together?

Generally speaking no, no known issues with running them both one after the other. I wouldn't let them both go at the sametime as they'll be chasing after the same files/registry entries.

Yes, Adaware does detect Spybot S & D... no... I'm not sure why either, but I do know that some sod released a spyware killer called Spybot that infesteted you with... spyware. Hence you need to make sure you get the legit version of it.

[greenlandy]

rameshuk said:

to save time ...


delete all your internet temp files & Cookies before you run the spyware scan.
This prevents all these really small (but numerous in number) files from slowing down the scan.

Change your win xp admin account name to something other than 'admin' .

Surf the internet with an ordinary account (Do not use the admin account)

use a poweruser account for everything. and have the admin password to hand to install stuff. IMHO