Hi I've read a couple of messages about chaning IE homepages. I've installed and run both spybot and ad-aware and they both found a whole bunch of "things" but neither of them solved the problem of the nasty porn start page that always opens up no matter what I do. I've run hijack this - should I post it here? Thanks for help!

Since you have already tried SpyBot and Ad-aware, post your log here - it would be helpful if you name the site to which your homepage has been hijacked and/or give its URL.

The HijackThis log will show the URL that the homepage was hijacked to. Just fyi :)

Check out this sites for help: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/ http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm HTH/Tommy

Or you can do like this: Correct your home page to the one you prefer, then immediately do the following: Backup the registry and/or export the following keys: go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ Right-click on the Internet Explorer key, choose new>Key, name it Control Panel. Right-click on the Control Panel, chose new>DWORD value, name it Homepage. Right-click on Homepage, choose modify and type in the number 1. This should lock your home page, so no other web site can change it. Then navigate here and verify the homepage is correct: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main look for the Start Page entry HTH/Tommy