What did it change to?? You've probably been hijacked.
I seem to have lost the option to change my home page in internet options,any advice how to correct this would maker me very gratful
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It's called spyware, and it's an ever increasing problem for users of IE. Search Google, these forums, and read up on the subject along with removal programs.
Then, stop using IE in favor of a browser much more resistant to spyware like Mozilla Firefox. The only thing you should be using IE for is twice monthly trips to the Windows Update site to download any new security patches that might have been released. If some site doesn't work in Firefox, find another that will.
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have spybot,spyware blaster and bulletproof spyware all windows updates are up to date
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BPS is probably where your problem came from, they are horrible. Read this link.
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
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Well, that takes care of the symptoms, now to do something about the disease. Download a copy of Mozilla Firefox (or Mozilla suite, or even Opera, all others are using the IE engine and will be just as big a problem) to keep the problem from happening.
IE is horribly insecure, probably always will be. So you can either be stupid and pig headed by continuing to use it, or you can be a bit more intelligent and get yourself out of the line of fire.
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This is a known problem if you set in Spybot the ?Lock IE start page? check box. So, you either uncheck the box there or modify the NoSetHomePage value in the registry. For details, read this page.
Good Luck,
Cetin
Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future,
T. S. Eliot
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As an added note to Cetin's post. SpywareBlaster also has a setting like that in tools/misc IE settings that locks the homepage which ALSO adds a value to a registry key which Ad-Aware sees as a critical item so it has to be set to ignore or it will be picked up on every scan. I tested this numerous times to make sure that was what was causing it. That doesn't sound like the problem here but I'm making a note of it for others. There may be a work around, I haven't checked their forum about it.
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thanks for all the advice, i decided to formate hard drive and start fron scratch.thank you all
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you probably put yourself thru a lot of unneccesary work when the fix was probably relatively easy. you need to let people respond to your question before going to such extremes. this is a place where we help each other. what you did was cop out instead of taking on the challenge of fixing it. i am not trying to sound rude but thats what this forum is for. a place where people help other people. as other people come to this forum and read the posts they learn what problems others have had and what their fix was or at least what advice was given. i take time to read this forum quite frequently as there is a vast amount of knowledge that can be learned.
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