IE 5.5 homepage reset at during restart/reboot

[tfast]

I have an old Win 95 PC with IE 5.5. The homepage is reset to some bad link page every time the machine is re-booted. Checked the registry for url "kov4l.com", changed the start page entry. IE can be shutdown and restarted and the url entered remains... until a reboot. Then it's back to the un-wanted url. Ran Norton anti-virus update and checked entire machine. Norton says no virus found. Any ideas?

 

[PAndersen]

The homepage is probably reset by a small pirate program running at startup. Run MSCONFIG or a similar program to get a list of programs initiated at startup. Or you can run REGEDIT and go to
H_L_M\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (and Run Once)

 

[Kento]

tfast, download Startlog.com from below then run it. It'll create 2 text files on your desktop. Copy and paste the results of just Startlog (not the stubpaths file) to your reply here. It may show us something relevant. To copy and paste if you don't know, when the results appear click edit--select all--edit--copy--then come here and right click in your reply window and select paste or click edit then paste.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rmbox/Reticulated/Only_IE.html

If you don't have msconfig you can get it free here. It'll work in 95.

http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Msconfig.htm

 

[turpittd]

This problem has been bugging me for a while.

I have gone into msconfig and found the first line int he startup file of the following..

mspqfile which points to a temp file in c:\windows\system called msba41a.tmp.

the tmp file contains the following.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="

http://kov4l.com"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="

http://kov4l.com"

"MSPQFile"=""

I ticked the mspqfile box to disable it at startup and rebooted.

dave