IE6 with a mind of it's own

[Righteous Brother]

I like IE to open with a blank window when I launch the program, and I have about:blank as the default setting in Tools | Options.

My problem is that every time I boot my system up and launch IE, it opens with "Cool Web Search" (URL: http://66.250.130.194/index.php?acc=2002). If I go to Tools | Options and reset the start page to blank, it opens as blank from that point forward until I shut down and start up again. This has been going on for about three weeks and is getting annoying.

I am running Win2K SP3, IE6 SP1.

I have gone into Regedit and searched on this URL thinking that some web page placed an edit in my registry, but came up empty. I am not real comfortable rummaging around in the registry unless I know what I am looking for, so I haven?t gone much deeper.

I have Ad-aware 5.0 (release 5.7) and other than the usual doubleclick cookies, it came up with this one entry.

Any ideas?

RB

[Zixar]

Check your LMHOSTS file and see if some program wrote that URL in there.

Create a new shortcut to IE 6 on your desktop. Change the command line to read "IEXPLORE.EXE -nohome" without the quotes and it will open to a blank page regardless of what evil twerp has set your homepage to.

...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

[Righteous Brother]

Thanks Zix...

I just got an email from a friend which suggested this linkfor a fix.

Problem solved.

Another happy customer.

RB