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Home page setting

Whenever I start Internet Explorer (IE 6), the page that opens up is: http://213.159.117.134/index.php ; inspite of my changing it to `about blank' a number of times. Please suggest a solution.

Jaswinder Singh

The home page getting changed is mainly due to some adware or spyware programs installed and running through the backdoor. Please install and run anti-spyware tools. This will solve your problem. Some freeware software

is available; Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.05 (size 2.51MB). You can download it at this URL:

http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10045910.html.

Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.3(size 4.15MB) available at

http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10122137.html.

Solutions by M. Sampath

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