I definatly second Spybot S&D.  The new version (1.3) seems to be a lot
more effictive at blocking such things.  fixmy (dot) net is another place
you can obtain it along with more spyware info..

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Demaret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:56:09 +0200
Subject: Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

> Mike Kear wrote:
>
> >There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on
> my
> >browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.  Every
> time I
> >delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the
> registry, it
> >finds its way back again.    I'll track it down eventually but in the
> mean
> >time, is there a way to disable the changing of the home page on IE,
> so
> >while I might not get rid of this damn application, at least it can't
> keep
> >on altering my home page?
> >
> You could try using SpyBot S&D, a pretty good anti-spyware thingie.
> http://www.safer-networking.de/
> AFAIK it has an option to force your startpage to a certain URL, hope
> it
> works for you.
>
> Gerry.
>
>
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