re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 3:10 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MrCharlie (4141 messages posted) You have inadvertently downloaded and installed CoolWebSearch or one of its variants (a browser hijacker). The best way to get rid of it is to download to and run from your desktop, CW-SHREDDER . If you get an error about a missing file MSVBVM60.DLL, install this first: MS-Patch . All downloads are virus free and safe. MrC By - Angel Love ThePost PROBLEM: Internet Options under Tools on Internet Explorer is changed and the General Tab is no longer present. To repair this issue you must fix a data value in the registry. To do this do the following. CLICK START BUTTON > CLICK ON RUN & type in regedit > this will take you to your registry, where you have to go to repair the issue. Once there, on the left side there go to the following... Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER then click on Software then click on Policies then click on Microsoft Then click on Internet Explorer and then click Control Panel. You will see three entries in this area, they are.....(default) REG_SZ & Programs Tab_REG-DWRORD & General Tab REG-DWORD. To the right of these there is a section with #'s in it referred to as "Data". The Data associated with the General Tab should read 0x00000000 (0)... if that data has a 1(one) instead of a 0 (zero) you need to change that data value back to 0 (zero). To do that do this..... right click on General Tab.........click modify.... make sure here is a dot in Hexadecimal selecting it....and the number to the left under (Value Data) change that number to a 0 (zero). Close the registry edit. After you do this the Internet Option under Tools will be normal again. On Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 9:53 am, dingtang wrote: >After visting one web site, my pc default homepage was hijacked and I cannot change >it to my original homepage because 'Tools - internet options - General - address >: was grey in colour which mean I cannot type anything on it. > >The worst thing is when I try to open my registry to solve the problem, it show me >a error message that my registry was disabled. > >Now I am really lost and dont know what to do next. I hope that someone will be able >to help me to solve the above 2 problems. Thank you. Written in response to: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (dingtang: Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 9:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (dingtang: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 9:53 am) re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (Drew J: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 9:59 am) re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (c.w.: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 10:39 am) re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (c.w.: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 10:56 am) re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (MrCharlie: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 3:10 pm) re: My home page was hijacked and my registry was disabled (JmC: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 10:12 pm) CoolWebShredder (JmC: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 12:51 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum