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    Removing the Acer/igoogle home page Trojan/virus

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by moranlevy, Jan 15, 2010.

  1. moranlevy

    moranlevy Newbie

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    I bought a new Acer notebook with Windows 7 and it comes with a preinstalled Trojan/virus that doesn’t allow you to change internet explorer’s homepage (which is set to Acer’s home page that redirects you to igoogle).
    I contacted the Acer support and they didn’t know how to solve the problem.

    After some work here is the solution that I found:
    Delete all cookies, log out of google and go into regedit (be careful – do not try to do this if you are not an advanced user).
    Go to
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
    Chabge the value of:
    Default_Page_URL
    Start Page

    Good luck.
     
    moranlevy, Jan 15, 2010
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  2. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Very interesting find, moranlevy. Welcome to NBR!
    And this, kiddies, is why I clean install Windows...and use Firefox.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 15, 2010
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