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Posted by mc on January 25, 2007, 9:34 pm
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is anyone having problems setting their homepage? I initially removed a
virus and some spyware this week, but after updating to ie7 my start page is
"about.blank" and it will not change!
I've scanned with symantec, superanti spyware, ad-aware, and tried the dos
type scanner(David Lipman) with the sophos & Kaspersky engines.
I noticed that in safe mode, ie goes to the default microsoft homepage...
mc



Posted by Donna Buenaventura on January 25, 2007, 11:06 pm
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Since your computer had an infection and done some removal, settings may
have been change. Kindly try to reset IE7's settings (Internet
Options>Advanced tab>click 'reset' button). Relaunched IE7.

When you are done, you might want to run a scan using Microsoft's MSRT -
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx


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> is anyone having problems setting their homepage? I initially removed a
> virus and some spyware this week, but after updating to ie7 my start page
> is
> "about.blank" and it will not change!
> I've scanned with symantec, superanti spyware, ad-aware, and tried the dos
> type scanner(David Lipman) with the sophos & Kaspersky engines.
> I noticed that in safe mode, ie goes to the default microsoft homepage...
> mc
>


Posted by mc on January 28, 2007, 2:39 pm
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Donna,
I tried the reset but it only gave me a blank blue page...
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx

I'll try the scan..
mc



Posted by Peter Foldes on January 26, 2007, 12:18 am
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MC

Maybe this article will help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320159/en-us

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Peter

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> is anyone having problems setting their homepage? I initially removed =
a
> virus and some spyware this week, but after updating to ie7 my start =
page is
> "about.blank" and it will not change!
> I've scanned with symantec, superanti spyware, ad-aware, and tried the =
dos=20
> type scanner(David Lipman) with the sophos & Kaspersky engines.
> I noticed that in safe mode, ie goes to the default microsoft =
homepage...
> mc=20
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Posted by mc on January 30, 2007, 5:39 pm
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Hello again
Well I re-ran super antispyware in safe mode, it did not find anything but
it did see the homepage change and it reset it to the default. I can now see
the change in Tools/options in ie but ie starts off at this url


http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005

and then ends up at this url which is a blank blue page?

http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx

Has anyone seen these web addresses before.

mc



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