I wish to use Google as default and when I enter that on Internet
Options as well as on your home page, by clicking the request, it
lasts only until I close out.  As soon as I go to the desk top again
and click Internet Explorer, another engine takes over as default and
it comes up instead.  What can I do?
to insure continuous Google?

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 01 Jan 2004 23:27 PST

What is the other engine?

Are you using a customized browser, or one with a search toolbar?

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 09 Jan 2004 20:12 PST

Also, do you have any other browsers (such as Opera or Firebird)
installed? If so, does the same thing happen?

I use Google as my default search engine, If you can edit registry to
these values you can set your default search engine to google. or else
just copy the lines below into a text file and save it as "search.reg"
. Then Double click "search.reg" to add these lines into registry.

These registry setting are for Microsoft Internet Explorer.If you use
any other browser let me know.

<----------------Copy to a file from below------------------------------->

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Use Search Asst"="no"
"Search Page"="://www.google.com"
"Search Bar"="://www.google.com/ie"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="://www.google.com/keyword/%s"
"provider"="freaks-ga"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="://www.google.com/ie"


<----------------------Do not copy this Line------------------------>

This sounds suspiciously like your computer may be infected with a
piece of malicious software that is "hijacking" you browser. Other
symptoms may include your browser's homepage being redirected, and
extra pop-up advertising windows.

There are a number of unscrupulous sites which do things like this.

One way to check is to find out the name of the search site you are
being redirected to, then do a Google search for "<search site name>"
+hijack. See if you can find any discussions from other people who
have been affected. Chances are other people are suffering from the
same problem.

If you can't find any information, post the name of the seach engine
you are being redirected to here, and somebody may be able to help.

Also, you might try spyware and adware removal programs such as
AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) or Spybot Search and Destroy
(http://www.safer-networking.org/) which are available for free. They
can solve many problems like this.

I had the same problem. The site you are redirected to is hijacking
your home page default settings. I am not technical at all. All I did
was the following.

Go to explorer.
Go to Tools, find files or folders
Put in the name of the site you are being redirected to
Go to ?Look In? and click the arrow. Then select ?My Computer
Click Find now

Select all the files and cookies related to that site and delete from
your computer.

Then you can set google as your default browser again.

I have a similar problem in that it works fine on one user account
(using XP Home) but not on another - it doesn't redirect to another
browser or search engine but the toolbar just disappears. It's still
there on the view/toolbars menu but loses its "tick".

Spybot hasn't cleared the problem, and neither has setting up another
user account. Sounds as if hijacking isn't always the issue

Removing your spyware infestation using Lavasoft AdAware is a good idea.

Afterwards, a very easy way to secure google as your search engine is
to install a free google toolbar from here: http://toolbar.google.com/

Not only will it give you to make google your default engine, but it
will block all popups and add a small google searchbox to your
toolbar.  In addition, it will replace microsoft search when you
misstype a URL in the Address pane of Internet Explorer.