a virus has disabled my home page so?

Question

i was chatting on the yahoo msngr and link was sent to me by another chatter and i click on it from then my home page settings are resticted (earlier it was rediff now it has some another site) icant change that web site as my home page.
how can i delet that site to appear as home page? i use the option tool but it no more works for home page setting

Answer 1

it is curious, whenever you chat with your friends, do not accept any unknown invitation, request or any link in your room ... all of them may be virus..

i cannot understand your questin,is your home page covered by that site pictures or ordinary sites..

Answer 2

I had similar problem, found this on a website ... try it out if you still have this problem.

if the tab is there and the home page has been set to a specific site and locked then do this
click start run and type in regedit then press enter
go to this string HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Control Panel\Homepage once here rigth click on the word hompage and select modify...change the value data to 0 click ok...this will unlock the hompage..... remember 0 to open hompage and 1 to lock it...

Answer 3

try selecting to change the homepage to blank or default and see if it sticks....run scans....and if the homepage changes again check to see if you have any programs that may be setup to protect the homepage from being changed (Norton Internet security, spysweeper, etc.) if not you can go into the registry and change the default settings.....be aware though that any changes made in the registry could damage the pc so proceed with caution....navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and check the values for the Default_Page_URL, and the Start Page....also check the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search for whats listed as search pages as they could have been changed as well.

Answer 4

registry has been modified by those viruses (exactly spyware or adware) try to put some spyware removal tool and scan your computer ... eg. yahoo norton spyware scan, yahoo spyware scan or ad-aware se personal etc, these are free...

Answer 5

use antivirus software always]