[thechat] ie6 startpage takeover
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Thu Feb 27 22:48:01 CST 2003
Martin Burns wrote:
> So some evil bastard of a site (http://www.searchex.com) has somehow
> managed to set itself as the start page of all the users on my WinXP box.
>
> Not the home page - hit 'home' and you get the expected result - but the
> start page.
>
> Anyone got any idea of how the hell to stop it?
Start -> Run -> regedit
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
change the Start Page REG_SZ value to what you want it to be - sorted.
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