locking my starting page?

As many sites nowdays change your starting page or fool you to do it your self whit bogus yes or no popups. I want to prevent this from happening. Is there a way to enter your starting page in the settings (in my case "www.altavista.com ") and the lock it down? please help. Best regards from Henrik

 

Flue--
http://www.spywareinfo.com/hijacked.html
See especially Script Sentry and Start Page Guard.

 

Try this:

Internet Explorer
To lock your homepage against outside changes:

Correct your home page to the one you prefer, then immediately do the following:
Backup the registry and/or export the following keys:
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\

Right-click on the Internet Explorer key, choose new>Key, name it ControlPanel.
Right-click on ControlPanel, chose new>DWORD value, name it Homepage.
Right-click on Homepage, choose modify and type in the number 1.

This should lock your home page, so no other web site can change it.
Then navigate here and verify the homepage is correct:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

look for the Start Page entry.

Courtesy "DEKE "