How to get rid of the bloody Chinese pages when starting browsing the Internet?

Question

* Even though my home page is MSN page, when I browse the internet, the 1st page appears is a Chinese one!!!
* clicked on internet options & made sure that my home page is MSN, But when browsing the internet , the 1st page appears is a bloody Chinese one!
IT IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!! please help to get rid of the monster!

Answer 1

If you're changing the home page in explorer options and the page is still going to the wrong place, there could be a couple of issues.

1st - You could have a virus that is changing the your homepage, but due to the actions of the code, your virus scanner may not find it. The best way to resolve this is to download Spybot Search and destroy. This will help make your browser more secure to these types of changes.

2nd - Check the shortcut, your start page can be overridden by passing the program the page you want to see when you open the program. For example, if the shortcut look like this, ""C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://www.yahoo.com", then it won't matter what you have set your start page to be, it will open yahoo everytime. It is possible that apiece of maliciuos code changed your link to point you to that page each time. To see what the shortcut looks like, right click on the icon and click properties. On the shortcut tab, look at the "Target" text box. If there is no webpage specified after the ".exe" portion, then your browser will open to the default page listed in internet options.

3rd - As unlikely is this may be, are you using a proxy server? If so, it might be the culprit. Many of the larger websites (MSN, Yahoo, Google) check the IP address of the requesting client and determine which part of the world it's coming from. It will then serve the correct language based on region. If you are using a proxy server that is re-routing traffic through China, you'll probably get a Chinese page.

4th - Download Mozilla Firefox. Problem solved. Firefox is an IE alternative that has a tremendous array of options that make surfing the internet easier, faster and more secure.

Good luck

Answer 2

If your homepage is still MSN, but it's in Chineese, then I'd suggest seeing if you changed your language settings by accident or something like that.

If it's not MSN and is a totally different page, I'd sugget that you try to run a virus scan and a spyware scan as well.

Another thing that you may want to try is to clear your cookies and such.

To do this on Internet Explorer 7, all you need to do is click on Tools and then Delete Browsing History.

Good luck and I hope I helped you!

Answer 3

I don't use MSN, but I've had the same issue with other sites such as Google. I'm sure the problem will be resolved by the same way that I resolved this issue with Google.

Simply, you need to tell MSN that you prefer English.


Try this:

1) Goto to MSN.com' main page.

2) Look for an "English" link.

3) There's probably a "settings/preferences" link. Select "English".

Good luck.

Answer 4

Click Tools>Internet Options and then look for langages. Make sure English is the default. Also make sure the home page address is just www.msn.com without anything after that address.

Answer 5

Check for the Language options, if you are using
IE6: Tools->Internet Options->Languages button
IE7: Hit Alt first and then do the IE6 stuff
Firefox: Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Languages

Answer 6

Change your homepage to Google for a min and try that

Answer 7

http://www.google.co.uk/

Select Preferences

Answer 8

As above

Answer 9

No.6 with egg fried rice is nice.

Answer 10

Tell them to get back to that Chinese wedding next door.