ehttp

[george]

does anyone know why everytime I hit my home button on
explorer I keep getting a home page that I don't want. I
change it and it keeps going back...and now everything
starts with ehttp versus http.

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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"george" > wrote in message:
...

| does anyone know why everytime I hit my home button on
| explorer I keep getting a home page that I don't want. I
| change it and it keeps going back...and now everything
| starts with ehttp versus http.

[NaresH KumaR]

Ehttps as prefix.

This problem is due to spywares installed in your system. In particual a
spyware called searchbooks.

The prefixes are stored in the following location. Based on this the system
searches the pages.

When this is changed then the prefix also changes. To solve this problem,
download and run the fix from the URL given below:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairDefaultPrefix.reg

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\DefaultPre
fix]
@="http://"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"

if the problem persists, download Anti-spyware tools:

1. Ad-aware:

Download and install Ad-Aware from any of the URLs given below:

To erase the spyware programs from loading from your system, download and
install a third party utility called Ad-aware from any of the URLs given
below:


http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ (Recommended)

Update and then run Ad-Aware to remove the latest spywares also from your
system. To do so, Download the latest reference file.

-or-

http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml

-or-

http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/dlnow.dll?Inc=No&ID=100156



2. Spybot

You can download spybot from the URL given below:

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html

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pbsnareshkumar
Microsoft India Community Star
"george" > wrote in message
...
> does anyone know why everytime I hit my home button on
> explorer I keep getting a home page that I don't want. I
> change it and it keeps going back...and now everything
> starts with ehttp versus http.