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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: ZacVegas on 03 November 2013, 07:44:26
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Morning people, I've got a problem with my laptop. I can't change my homepage, I've gone into the Internet options menu to change it but its not working. Is there a computer whizz out there that can help please?
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What happens when you try to change it?
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I type in the web address I want to have as my homepage and when I click on the apply box the web address I typed in turns blue, like when you double click on it to delete it or overwrite it
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What happens if you reset IE to it's default settings?
Default settings are found under the Advanced tab.
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reset ie settings and restarted the laptop, still doing the same if I try to change the homepage
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What address does it default to at the moment?
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It would be the porn site he looks at ;D ;D
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My mrs restored the laptop to an earlier point and its working ok now. My mrs was trying to find a site to download movies and that's when it went tits up. Nothing to do with porn........this time :D
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Sounds like something "altered" your hosts file.
If Win7, go to %WinDir%\System32\Drivers\Etc and select the Hosts file, open it with notepad.
Delete all content and copy and paste the following . . .
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
Save file (make sure saved as hosts without a file extension) - job done :y
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My mrs restored the laptop to an earlier point and its working ok now. My mrs was trying to find a site to download movies and that's when it went tits up. Nothing to do with porn........this time :D
Run a full AV, Malware and rootkit scan on that. I suspected it had been compromised when I saw the thread earlier, having seen how it happened, I'm more convinced....
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Sounds like something "altered" your hosts file.
If Win7, go to %WinDir%\System32\Drivers\Etc and select the Hosts file, open it with notepad.
Delete all content and copy and paste the following . . .
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
Save file (make sure saved as hosts without a file extension) - job done :y
Is that the full hosts file?
All the entries appear to be rem'd out so it won't actually do anything :-\ (but that might be the desired behaviour)
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Thats correct - look at your own hosts file ;)
Its effectively empty but can be mod'd/added to though, and that can be the problem :)