This is one of the approaches taken by some of the nasty "AdWare" that's
out there. Odds are good that either Ad-Aware or Spybot Search-and-Destroy
will clean it up (and probably catch other stuff you just haven't noticed
yet).
David Gillett
On 22 Jan 2004 at 20:01, Lewis M Russakov wrote:
> Seems like some off shore gambling web site has taken over my Internet
> Explorer Address bar.
>
> Everytime I try to go online, instead of opening to my opening page, IE
> attempts to connect to this other site.
>
> I have gone into IE tools/Internet options/Home Page and change the
> address to my regular opening page. It switches back to the gambling site
> address the next time I use IE. Can not figure out how to get ride of
> this address. Do not know where IE stores such addresses.
>
> Can anyone help me? I am running Win ME.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lew Russakov
> Huntington Beach, CA 92648
>
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