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Thread ID: 18517	2002-04-26 16:15:00	How to protect your home page.	Guest (0)	Press F1

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45825	2002-04-26 16:15:00	StartPage Guard v1.30 -- Win9x/ME (5 doves) StartPage Guard is a hidden tool which protects a PC from cyberscam by monitoring status of the Internet Explorer browser StartPage address and preventing any unauthorized changes. It is also effective against changes made by some advertiser supported programs. This is done by checking the nominated StartPage with the current StartPage at system bootup and reverting back to the nominated address at that time. While it can simply be annoying to have the StartPage changed without your permission, there is a more sinister problem. As the author says: 'malicious programs (viruses, trojans, backdoors, etc.) sometimes change the StartPage to 'gain the ground'. Spywares use this way to invade user's privacy by tracking destinations which user visited, and collecting personal information. In some cases this activity may be totally transparent to the user. But most often this is just plain annoyance when start page is changed without asking user's permission'. StartPage Guard effectively uses no long term system resources (about 3% is used when the program loads on system bootup but this is returned to the system within a few minutes) so it is a good candidate for auto-loading. In fact the program does auto-load by placing itself in the system Registry. Apart from protecting the original StartPage, the only affect that this program has on Windows is to delay its loading by a small amount while it checks the status of the StartPage. With the prevalence of trojans & virus attacks over the Internet, and the annoyance of having your StartPage changed by one of the advertiser-supported programs, we consider StartPage Guard to be an essential add-on to all users (unless you have completely removed IE from your computer). Get it! Access this 638kB download from: www.completelyFREEsoftware.com	Guest (0)
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