HomePage of browser reset each time I reboot

[rcommer]

Something changed my home page to a bogus search engine page.

I change my home page back to say "yahoo.com". This works until I reboot, then my home page reverts back to this other home page I don't want.

Does anyone know how I can remove whatever software is doing this to my browser?

Thanks!

PS. Sorry, Windows 2000 Professional

Try "Ad-aware" or "Spybot".

It's probably in your StartUp Folder or in the Registry "Run" keys.

What OS?

[rcommer]

The site is www.searchv.com I ran adaware and I don't see anything close to this name. I've removed everything from my startup folder. Still no success.

I am not sure what the "registry run keys" are. Please elaborate a little on that.

[tgxiii]

You should also run Spybot. There are some spyware that can be detected by only either Spybot or AdAware, so it's a good idea to run both.

[vass0922]

Originally posted by rcommer
The site is www.searchv.com I ran adaware and I don't see anything close to this name. I've removed everything from my startup folder. Still no success.

I am not sure what the "registry run keys" are. Please elaborate a little on that.

Easier method

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Windows 2000 Msconfig type application.

Will allow you to run this app and it will show you all applications that run on startup

Agreed with the suggestion of trying spybot, sometimes it catches stuff that adaware doesn't.

[yclyde]

A couple of apps here should help ya:

http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/

Startuplist works well; have heard that "hijack this" is good for the symptoms that ail ya.

[VTScotty]

I have recently seen a virus that will change your homepage to a pornsite, put that link in your AIM profile, and even if you change both to something else it reverts back to what the virus puts in there. There is a file that the virus puts on the computer that causes it to do this. It contains the characters AV (not sure if that is an ext. or filename). Search for it and if you find it delete it. You may have to end the process before you will be able to delete it but it seems to fix the problem.

[meese]

To get rid of "searchv.com" you can edit the registry. Open regedit. Click the Edit button. Do a search for "searchv.com" wothout the quotes. For each entry found, replace it with your normal home page.

And then check this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

for anything that looks fishy. Things listed here run at startup.