Internet Explorer Title Bar?

Question

Title Bar has Internet Explorer Logo as usual but followed by what looks like a long stream of chinese letters. Been there about 10 days and doesn't affect working of PC but where has it come from and how do I get back the original heading?

Answer 1

The text that appears at the title bar of IE is completely (and easy) customizable. It must have gotten changed by some spyware. I would do a spyware check on my system. To restore the text do:

1. Click Start and then Run.
2. Key in regedit in the Run text box.
3. Navigate to and select the following key in the Registry Editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Internet Explorer\Main
4. Double-click the Window Title icon in the right pane.
5. If the key doesn’t exist, right-click in the pane, then choose New, String Value, type Window Title, and press .
6. Type what you want to see on IE’s title bar, or type nothing to show only the site name.
7. Click OK.
8. Close Registry Editor and any Internet Explorer’s windows.

When you relaunch Internet Explorer, the change will be in effect and you will have your favorite title. However, note that the hyphen that normally separates the site name from the page title will remain.

Answer 2

You can fix this and wait for the next IE issue. or you can install a different browser. Firefox? It hogs resources. Opera dodges 95% of the malware out there.

Answer 3

You only need to do a search on here to see how many people are having problems with IE7. The best thing to do is download Mozilla Firefox available from http://www.mozilla.com/ Its faster, more user friendly, easily customisable to suit your needs and no problems.

Answer 4

Dump IE and get Firefox for free. It's faster and more stable, it's a huge improvement on IE.

Answer 5

I suggest a virus scan and malware scan as well.
then use spybot search and destroy.....