my pc was attacked by a virus called trojan horse a few days ago.  My
norton antivirus did not pick it up and they told me it needed to be
deleted because it could not be repaired.  I deleted it.  what happens
is that I cannot set my home page to be what I want.  It automatically
defaults to a non-descript home page, that has no identifying info on
it.  I also have spyware and popup software on my system but I'm still
suspicious of this home page.  How could I remedy this?  the original
virus was installed as "C:\program files\apo.htm\trojan horse".

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 27 Jun 2004 07:46 PDT

Greetings, doch!

Are you still having a problem with scumware on your computer? If so,
please post a Clarification here, and I'll be glad to help you
troubleshoot the problem.

Regards,

aceresearcher

Scan your computer to make sure it is virus free:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Scan  your computer to make sure it is spyware free:

I personnaly prefer spybot S&D @ http://www.zone-x.com/spybot.php

After both are done, and your system is clean, you *should* be able to
change your homepage.

open the registry using the command "regedit" and the open the path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
and check whether the site is there in the registry entry. If the
entry is there then remove the entry from the registry.

Gourav Jain