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stopping sites from setting itself as my homepge

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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: May 21, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: stopping sites from setting itself as my homepge
>
> Leo,

> how do i stop this one site from continually setting itself
> as my home page? I cant get rid of it

Run one of the anti-spyware products like spybot search and
destroy http://ask-leo.com/d-spybot, or Microsoft's Anti-Spyware
http://ask-leo.com/d-msspyware. Both have features which will
"lock" your home page and prevent it from being hijacked in
the future.

Thanks for asking,

Leo

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