why does my homepage keep getting reset to yahoo?
 

every coupld of days my homepage in ie 5 gets reset to yahoo and theres a little popup that comes up with this address: http://205.134.182.164/1/topsearch.htm

last time this happened I ended up formatting c: but I dont want to have to format again.

anyone know who this guy is who is resetting homepages?
and how can I stop my homepage from getting reset?

Here's the info I got on that ip...

Target: 205.134.182.164
Date: 2/24/2002 (Sunday), 11:47:08 AM
Nodes: 20


Node Data
Node Net Reg IP Address Location Node Name
20 1 - 205.134.182.164 39.215N, 76.879W


Packet Data
Node High Low Avg Tot Lost
20 246 246 246 1 0


Network Data
Network id#: 1
Light Street Publications (NET-AIN-MAE-E-FDDI182)
6470 Freetown Road Ste 200-39
Columbia, MD 21044
US

Netname: AIN-MAE-E-FDDI182
Netblock: 205.134.182.0 - 205.134.182.255

Coordinator:
American Information Network (AINA-ARIN) [email protected]
(410) 715-6809
Fax- (410) 715-6808

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

DNS9.AI.NET 205.134.162.2
DNS6.AI.NET 205.134.162.209

Record last updated on 28-May-1996.
Database last updated on 23-Feb-2002 19:56:39 EDT.

The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related


i have had related things, but I truly believe it was bearshare responsible for it. Their SaveNow software pops random shit , I deleted it all.... anyway, hope this helps you with that asshole.

I get that too, what the fuck, they are tricky, thats gotta be illegal or something, i hardly noticed since I normally just have my default set to that.... yahoo should sue some ass

wouldn;t surprise me to find out Yahoo's got their fingers in the money pot somewhere along the line.

Just use Netscape and you won't have that problem ;)))

it's a trade off...I get my browser crashed by sloppy programming and exit consoles don't work on 60% of the sites I visit (a good thing I guess), but I don't get my browser hijacked, I don't get email worms and virii, I don't get mystery links added to my favorites/bookmarks...

no offense but netscapes html rendering engine is is way too slow. It takes forever to write out tables, especially if they're nested.

It's a great suggestion tho. :thumbsup

thanks fopr that info Fletch XXX :)

Just use Ad-Aware... that's what I do.

wouldent it be easyer to just reset the homepage.
Its a search 404 page that auto loads , just fuck it off when you get it , and yes it should be illegal

ai,net I do believe is Dynamic Hosting. Maybe they will help deal with this???

Check your Hosts file in your Windows directory. You can thank me later.

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