Internet Options General Tab is missing

Thanks Mike, that lavasoft program helped save IE for me.
Great tip. Great tool.

-----Original Message-----
You've probably been hijacked.

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of
the free Ad-Aware 6.0
from Lavasoft
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also
SpyBot
Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and
use them to check your
system for other commercial parasites remembering that
they are only as good
as when you last updated their reference files. I also
use a program called
BHOCaptor (http://www.xcaptor.org) that checks for
unwanted Browser Help
Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html)
which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Then finally there is CWShredder
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip)
which is the best way
of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch
hijacker details of
which can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp.

If, after thoroughly checking your system and removing
all/any parasites
found, you still cannot access the General tab Go to
Kelly's Korner and
download the small file iegentabs.reg
(http://www.kellys-korner-
xp.com/regs_edits/iegentabs.reg). Right click and
merge with your registry and this should remove the
restrictions that have
been put in place by the hijacker that are preventing
your access to Internet
Options. Don't do this though until you've cleaned your
system and only if
this has not restored access to the General tab.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Sam wrote:

running ME and IE 6.0 SP1 and I cannot change my home
page, delete temp internet files or cookies as I do not
have the General Tab. When I select Tools - Internet
Options I see the Security - Privacy - Content...
panels.
Has IE been hi-jacked or have I inadvertently set a
security setting? - Thanks


.

Thanks for the feedback Doug.
--
Mike M


Doug wrote:

Thanks Mike, that lavasoft program helped save IE for me.
Great tip. Great tool.