http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/

11/03/12

Every time you open Internet explorer you get this page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/welcome-upgrade2

This happened on a freshly installed windows 7 machine

Your Internet option Homepage has been set to : http://www.google.com.au/ but it still persists in opening this page.

I have uninstalled IE9, installed, set google as default page, you name it, but the page remains

Fix : Open IE8, or 9 Go to tools, Manage add-ons, search providers, right click on the avg provider and disable delete.  Next day back again

Avg still having problems with these cookies

My AVG version = 2012.0.1913

Found Tracking

cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\laurie@m.webtrends[2].txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:50:09 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\laurie@m.webtrends[2].txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:46:15 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\RPXLHKFP.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:37:42 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\8F8XNQDZ.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:37:09 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\NZH0UX90.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:36:43 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\MM8QO1EP.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:29:15 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\V857OOKM.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:22:41 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\HWDLHN8G.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:18:44 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\SCVQ31I9.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:17:51 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\20PUSXYZ.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:15:38 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.2o7;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\SBY9B55F.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:06:32 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Found Tracking cookie.Webtrends;"c:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\X6B0YIZ8.txt";"";"12/03/2012, 8:06:32 AM";"file";"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

I deleted the .txt files in theis folder : C:\Users\Laurie\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low

Every time I would deleted these cookies and open Internet explorer it would add these cookies again

By this stage I had open closed internet explorer over 20 times eventially it stopped, Internet explorer opened my default page.

2nd day back again 12/03/12

When you open explorer it opens http://g.msn.com/1me10IE9SE_ENUS/110 which takes you to : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/welcome-upgrade2

Download and install Spybot

Run as administrator

Once installed it will place itself in your taskbar, you will need to exit this then go to Start, All programs, Spybot - Search and Destroy, right click on Spybot - Search and Destroy and run as administrator.

At the top menu click on mode, then advanced mode, then tools, on the right hand side tick all the boxes, in particular, Browser pages

In the left colum click on Browser Pages, you will now see http://g.msn.com/1me10IE9SE_ENUS/110
click change, key in say http://www.google.com/, press ok.

Ill be back tomorrow if this doesn't work but you should be right now.

You can also run Hijackthis to confirm that the entry at R1 is not: http://g.msn.com/1me10IE9SE_ENUS/110


Spybot = http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Hijackthis = http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/