I had my homepage hijacked by cnet.com.
After the hijacking, the options in internet options are not clickable (use current, use default, use blank)!!

The ONLY way that I can find to change my homepage is to go to the registry and change the start page there.

Is there someway to get my buttons back?

Your home page is set in IE in the menu TOOLS / INTERNET OPTIONS

I'm not sure it will work, but you could try going to Tools and clicking on Reset Web Settings.

...Or, you can put a small Reg tool on your desktop, such as the one here:
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2000/2000-07-10.htm#2 .
One click of that tool will restore your home page to whatever you want, after it's
been hijacked.
But there are more malicious ways to hijack a page, such as the one used by "PassThisOn." Pages like that actively re-set your home page even if
you change it to something else, and take more work to disable. But even with those, there's help:
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-06-07.htm#6

Above is from Langa.com newsletter.
Good Luck

Hummmm....

I'm posting the solution to my own problem!

Anyway, just incase anyone needs the info for future problems here is how you fix it:

Here is the solution:
Start>run>regedit>H_KEY_CURRENT_USERS
THEN go to
Software>Policies>Microsoft>Internet Explorer>Control Pannel

THEN in the right hand box
you will see "HOME"
Right click on "HOME" and choose the option to delete.
After deleting press F5 (this will refresh your registry) close and restart your browser.

You DO NOT have to restart your computer. Now it will be fixed!

I'm having the same problem. cnetadd.com screwed up my internet. whenever i start IE..it goes to that cnetadd.com - some japanese site. anyway i click TOOLS/INTERNET OPTIONS . The area where you change your start page was grayed out. I can't do anything. I reset the internet explorer options and i got msn.com back (whew). but i still cant change my start page....its grayed at msn.com now. its probably something with my regedit files. can anyone help?

Ok. never mind. that worked. didn't see that post.

This worked on my computer but it is H_KEY_CURRENT_USER not H_KEY_CURRENT_USERS

Is there some sort of hacker group we can sick on these guys. I would love to see someone get into their computer and start greying out controle buttons!

I do tech support for a living. I was just dealing with a caller that went to this exact page, and had the same problems. I helped her reset her homepage by searching for cnetadd and changing the homepage, but couldn't figure out how to get the homepage box & buttons ungreyed.

After a bit of searching, I found help on microsoft's support page here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q195161%26dialogID%3d9189988%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c6871602 (blame micro$oft for the painfully long url) ; )

There was a key in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel

named 'homepage'. It's a string key, and it was set to 1. You can either clear the value and leave it or delete the key entirely, either method should ungrey the homepage box.

Hope this helps! Feel free to email me if it doesn't.

love you guys!

finally put that cnetadd crap to bed using your advice.
Happy surfing!

Cheers Guys.

The regedit action had the desired effect.

bbc.co.uk/rugbyleague now safely restored as my default homepage :)