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Unwanted porn sites popping up

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Jan 4, 2002
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Everytime I use internet explorer after a few minutes a porn site pops up. I have never knowingly visited this site and I an unable to stop it appearing. I've search on c:\ and can not find anything. Hope can I get rid of this site?
 
What is you're start-up page for IE?? Try deleting all you're cookies and cache...

Internet Options -> Under 'Temporary Internet Files', click the 'Delete Files', and under 'Settings', deleter all the Cookies
I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
fatcat2002,

Check the FAQ:

faq608-1148

To reset the default search:

Open Notepad and copy and paste the following between the lines and save the file as searchfix.reg. Double-click on the file to merge the contents into the registry.
=====================BEGIN CUT======================

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"=""CustomizeSearch"="
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"Provider"="yaho"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\main]
"Search Page"="===========================END CUT=========================

If you see a SearchBar entry under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main], delete it.

reghakr
 
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