I'm running XP Home on a DSL link. I downloaded a file from a site that I visited. Somehow it changed my startup homepage. Everytime I go into Internet options and change the startup homepage to something else, at some point it gets changed back. This occurs whether I reboot or not. I located the folder that was created when I installed this file and deleted it. The folder keeps somehow being recreated. I even went into regedit and searched for every occurance of the folder's name (MS-Connect), and then deleted the line. This didn't work either. The folder justs keep getting recreated. Could someone be doing this from the Internet? Please offer some advice on what steps I need to take to correct this.
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Wierd things happening with browser.
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Sounds like spyware or adware.
Try the program AdAware from to try and get rid of it and all of it's associates.
Try the program AdAware from to try and get rid of it and all of it's associates.
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