Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
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Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 11:02 AM
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IE7 defaults to a Sony page, the Sony club or some such. It also appears that if you go to any other page with any problems you are instantly whisked back to this club page.
Anyway, I have run him through: Tools/internet options/homepage/use-blank/apply/ok But explorer reverts back to this club page.
Surely Sony hasn’t permanently hijacked the homepage on their computers? And if they have how should I get rid of it? Do I need to change a registry setting?
Thanks in anticipation of sage advice.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 11:31 AM
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As for the Sony stuff, it's probably branding that's doing this. Yes, it probably will be a registry setting but running the following from a shell or the run box should sort it:
rundll32 iedkcs32.dll,BrandCleanInstallStubs
Hope this helps,
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 11:38 AM
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I will get on the blower and see if the de-branding willl sort it out.
Cheers
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 11:55 AM
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I will have to get hold of the laptop... I suppose at worst I could reinstall IE7.
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09-08-2007 12:00 PM
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09-08-2007 12:23 PM
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09-08-2007 12:27 PM
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If you are not familiar with finding and removing these then the following page should help: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 12:33 PM
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Thanks for that Peter I will take a look.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 12:47 PM
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http://www.ie7.com/.
Amusing
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 12:56 PM
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Quote from: God
IE7 defaults to a Sony page, the Sony club or some such. It also appears that if you go to any other page with any problems you are instantly whisked back to this club page.
Does spybot IE tweaks work on IE7 which allows you to modify hidden IE settings.
Spybot - tools - IE tweaks
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 1:05 PM
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If Sony have hi-jacked the page so you cant change it then that really sucks in my opinion.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 1:19 PM
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Mind you, I bet if you install a decent virus checker on it, it will pickup the branding software as a virus
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 1:41 PM
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Quote Mind you, I bet if you install a decent virus checker on it, it will pickup the branding software as a virus
If thats what it is ofcourse.... it would seem very strange for sony to forcably re-direct the homepage back to their site. I think the sort of thing "Oldjim" is referring to might carry the answer... especially if something like "norton" is installed which is highly possible on a straight from the shop PC.
Hope that helps.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 7:01 PM
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Quote from: Peter HijackThis will presumably take care of it as well
yes it will, it will list all BHO files, and allow them to be removed.
alternatively, you can go to Tools->Manage Add-ins->Enable/Disable Add-ins. First one to nuke is the SSVHelper Class. This combined with Sybot's Immunise can cause major headaches with HTML messages with Outlook 2000/2003 - major slow downs.
Only fix is to remove Spybot to stop Outlook freezing, the undo fucntion only works for a few days, before some automated process kicks in and starts doing it all over again.
tbh, use Firefox, its an incredible browser.
Re: Sony Hijacking IE7 Homepage?
09-08-2007 7:24 PM
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One way to fix it is to start Outlook with the "Outlook Today" Page.
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