Internet Help

[Master Capper]

Recently I installed Windows XP and made my homepage MSN, but know whenever I log online I get Find-online as my homepage, I have tried to delete this from my hard drive but it keeps coming back. Also, I had my search engine set as google but now I am getting Sir Search as my engine even if I delte the site from my hard drive. Any ideas on how I can get rid of these sites and get back to MSN and google?

 

[Hamster]

go TOOLS>>>>Internet options>>>>Home page.....change address to "msn.com"

 

[KMA]

Open Explorer
Put www.msn.com in the address bar
Go to Tools
Internet options
Under Homepage click Current
Bottom of page click Apply.

Also run Ad-aware and then Spybot's search and Destroy. It sounds as if you might have spyware that needs removing.

 

[Master Capper]

I have tried doing what both of you are suggesting but it will reset the page while I am online but as soon as I sign off and shut the computer down it goes back to the find-online.com page once I turn the puter back on. I have been researching what to do and this is a new schemes being used by spammers it's called hijacking your home page and I have yet to find a soloution.

 

[FatBoy]

As stated above, download and run spybot. Make sure you run with the advanced option. The default that goes to your desktop is "easy mode". With advanced, you have an option under immunize to Lock IE start page. This should fix your problem.

 

[Master Capper]

thanks guys!!

 

[Master Capper]

That Spybot solved the problem for the start up page, wow did I have alot of spy ware on my hard drive. How can I change my default search engine back to google from sir search?