Hello People, Am having a bit of a nightmare. I run Ad-Aware and SpyBot on a regular basis, both have been updated to the latest version and all they have found is cleared or fixed. Windows update also shows no critical updates. However one problem is re-occuring. The homepage is always set to: C:\WINDOWS\System32\IEsp.mht I delete the file or change it's name but next time starting Internet Explorer it's back. Could someone please help? Thanks in advance for any information or advise.

1. Shutdown Internet-Explorer, go to your Taskmanager and kill all processes named IEXPLORE.exe 2. Delete this Files: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IEsp.mht C:\WINDOWS\system32\msadocm32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\sqlpool.dll 3. Change the Following Registry-Key to "about:blank" (without quotes) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page 4. Run regedit.exe and delete the following Registry Keys,or Run Hijackthis and Scan and fix ONLY these entries if they exist: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285}\InprocServer32 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285}\VersionIndependentProgID HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285}\ProgID HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285}\Programmable HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285} or execute reg.exe delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285} 5. Delete the Value {0B519E07-7824-4adc-8890-93D5EABBF285} from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ADODB.Comand\CLSID\ I recommend using an alternative web browser such as Mozilla firefox.There are more security issues with IE then with MFF.

Cheers Joe, All sorted now. Definietly going to switch browsers. IE is just too vunerable!

Good to hear everything is clear.

Your instructions worked great, but now I can't stop my home page from being set to "about:blank". Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

Your homepage is set at aboutblank.Thats why its directing you to it.To change this if your using IE.First open your IE browser and at the top select TOOLS,then select INTERNET OPTIONS. Now were it says HOMEPAGE type in the homepage that you want for example: www.msn.com,then select APPLY,then OK.

This string is a god-send -- thanks. Sorry it won't get the rest of the job done. I am also plagued with morphing files that change without action to files with future dates and a bug that causes Ad-Aware/Ad-Watch to consume more than 90% of my cycles. Ad-Watch and others also can't seem to shut down IE which shows at least 4 open porn processes behind anything that is running. Kill them and they regenerate at different web addresses. Sadly the infidels are building faster than the defenders Thanks for this bit of help