[nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

You may have some rogue software.  Some of that kind of software does just this.  A program like Super Anti-Spyware 
does a nice job of cleaning that kind of thing up and preventing your startup page from being changed without your 
permission.

Best Regards,

Steve

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:52:10 -0500 (EST), Tracy Carcione wrote:

>Help!  Google is taking over!
>Well OK, not totally, but still...as of a couple days ago, whenever I open
>Internet Explorer, Google comes up as my home page.  And it's not even
>regular Google, because, when I put something in to search for, and the
>links come up, I can't actually choose any of them.
>I went to Internet Options and selected blank as my homepage, which is
>what I want, and what it's been for a long time.  I uninstalled something
>called Google AFE. I've tried to find if there's a file called "blank"
>that might have gotten taken over somehow, but I don't find one.
>How can I get IE to open with my blank homepage, like it always used to
>do?  And where is this darned Google page coming from?

>My husband also uses this PC, and Goodness knows what he may have clicked
>on by accident, but I should still be able to reset it.
>Sure hope some of you smart people have some ideas.  I feel like Big
>Brother is breathing down my neck.
>Tracy




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