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#1 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:28 pm

My home page is set to Yahoo! but it's been defaulting itself to a different search engine, and I don't want that...and it keeps doing it even when I put http://www.yahoo.com in the homepage area.

Any clue on how I can fix it?

Thanks!
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#2 Postby Skywatch_NC » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:31 pm

Colin, what is your homepage called? :) That aside from the TSR site. :wink:

Eric 8-)
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#3 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:27 pm

My homepage is "Looking For..." but what I want it to be is Yahoo!, but whenever I set it to that, it goes back to the "Looking For..." site the next time I go onto the Internet.
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#4 Postby VanceWxMan » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:32 pm

you my friend have a SPY WARE on your system. And your registry has been attacked and sabatoged :) So first you need to get Ad Aware and run it. If that doesn't fix it you will have to go into the registry editior and change the key manually :o

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#5 Postby streetsoldier » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:40 pm

Ad-Aware is a FREE download, BTW...I have it installed on my PC, and it keeps the three Windows XP desktops clean as can be.
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#6 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:49 pm

EVERYONE needs ad-aware.. It can be downloaded from http://www.download.com
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#7 Postby weatherlover427 » Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:05 pm

Colin, let me know if you have any questions about AdAware, I run it once or twice a week. :)
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#8 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Jan 01, 2004 5:01 pm

I still find it strange (for lack of a better word) on how Ad-Aware became known. It seems that we need to know about a program such as this to know it is really needed.
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#9 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 5:15 pm

I already have Ad-Aware...thanks guys, I'll do that right now. :)
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#10 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Jan 01, 2004 5:16 pm

I still find it strange (for lack of a better word) on how Ad-Aware became known. It seems that we need to know about a program such as this to know it is really needed.

What is it that you need to know about it.. I am personal friends with the Persons that developed it
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#11 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:09 pm

That didn't work....any other suggestions? :(
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#12 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:10 pm

after you ran Ad aware did you manually change your homepage back?
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#13 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:12 pm

no...but i did after i went on the internet...

i did before i ran it and then after i went back on the internet AFTER i ran Ad-Aware...

Confusing... :lol:
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#14 Postby Colin » Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:23 pm

That didn't work either... :(
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#15 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Jan 02, 2004 4:58 am

chadtm80 wrote:
I still find it strange (for lack of a better word) on how Ad-Aware became known. It seems that we need to know about a program such as this to know it is really needed.

What is it that you need to know about it.. I am personal friends with the Persons that developed it

I am referring to how people find out about the software to begin with. I would figure other people wonder this same thing... :)
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#16 Postby chadtm80 » Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:52 am

Advertising IE: Popups, email etc.. Also word of mouth... When you have a product such as Ad-aware consumers tend to realy get the word out.
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#17 Postby j » Fri Jan 02, 2004 9:24 am

chadtm80 wrote:Advertising IE: Popups, email etc.. Also word of mouth... When you have a product such as Ad-aware consumers tend to realy get the word out.


I find out about these things from PCWorld magazine...Its cheap, and every month its full of ways to keep you up and running.
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#18 Postby chadtm80 » Fri Jan 02, 2004 9:40 am

I agree PCWorld is a Great subscrip j
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#19 Postby Colin » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:30 pm

*BUMP*
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#20 Postby WoodstockWX » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:53 pm

I downloaded a trial version of a spyware scanner/remover and matched the spywares it found to their destinations in the reg key and deleted them.

I don't recommend that you do this but it's what I've been doing, until now, because I'm going to download Ad-aware and try it out!
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