msn.com - home page in IE

Is it happening to you too?

[Matt1972]

I have noticed weird thing for past 10 days. Suddenly browser's home page is set to www.msn.com. I went to options, set "use blank". After 1 day same thing happens again. Today this started on the other server as well.

This is the URL I can find in IE:

[microsoft.com...]

Is Microsoft trying to force msn.com by "hacking" our settings? Both computers are free of viruses (Avast, Spybot search & destroy, Spywareblaster).

[Spica]

Matt: If you use Ad-aware, that is where your problem comes from. For some reason, this program sees your home page set to blank as a potential threat, and, if you don't set your exclusions properly, will reset your home page to the default (MSN).
Next time, place this particular entry in your 'ignore list', this will take care of the problem.

[pageoneresults]

If you use Ad-aware, that is where your problem comes from.

Interesting. I was going to post a topic about this a while back and decided not to. I was thinking it was coming from the Critical Updates. As soon as an update was installed, this behavior began. Changing the home page back to blank solved the problem. Install another update and the home page was back to MSN. Hmmm...