steam_mill
Chief Petty Officer
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- Jan 16, 2002
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I'm a computer consultant so I am very perplexed by the following problem:<br /><br />My dumb a$$ brother-in-law is getting divorced so he had to move into my house. My wife and I were away and he used my home computer.<br /><br />Of course he hit websites and installed crap he should not have. Norton did not catch it.<br /><br />Well my IExplorer now will only work if I have a webpage with a URL like this:<br /><br />c:\winnt\secure.html<br /><br />so I created this web page but every time I open up a new IE session, it must go to this web page before I can go anywhere else.<br /><br />Changing the home page setting has no effect. When I reboot the PC, it resets to the above URL.<br /><br />This setting has to be somehwere, but where?<br /><br />I've regedit etc. etc.<br /><br />Ideas?<br /><br />Tx.<br /><br />Joe
<br /><br />What operating system are you running?<br />If XP, then do as suggested. System restore to an earlier date.<br /><br />If W98, then I think you can simply do a re-install of IE. Not sure.<br /><br />Sounds like you got a re-direct Active-x program.<br />Can be nasty little things to get rid of.<br />Those are usually found on porn sites and those flash-type jokes or short movies.<br />A little box pops up and asks if you want to install and run 'xyz whatever', or 'do you want to set your homepage to...' and not thinking... you click yes. <br /><br />That happened to my daughter's computer. Messed IE all up. Luckily we had XP and system restore. Otherwise... CTRL/ALT/Delete and C:format ! 