There was a thread a while back about someone's start page being changed and not being able to change it back. I just ran across this free program that should be able to help fix that problem. Here it is:

Fran

StartPage Guard v1.3 - 637 KB
Platform: Windows 9x, ME, NT 4.0, 2K
StartPage Guard (SPG) protects your PC from cyberscam, by monitoring status of your internet browser StartPage and preventing it from any unauthorized changes.
Malicious programs (viruses, trojans, backdoors, etc.) sometime change the StartPage to "gain the ground". Spywares use this way to invade user's privacy by tracking destinations which user visited, and collecting personal information. In some cases this activity may be totally transparent to the user. But most often this is just plain annoyance when start page is changed without asking user's permission. SPG effectively deals with all this problems, making surfing the net safer, more secure, and by reducing frustaration - more fun.
FEATURES
* ALWAYS remember user-selected StartPage.
* Alerts if start page has been changed.
* Detects and reports transparent-redirect attempts.
* Can automatically revert to user-selected start page without user interaction.
* Deals with disabled (grayed) set-startpage-address buttons on IE.
* Simple and user friendly interface.
* Whole program is a single, small (300+k) file, written in C++.
* Install / uninstall included.
Piotr J. Walczak
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http://pjwalczak.com/spguard/index.php
http://pjwalczak.com/spguard/spg13.zip

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