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Handling Home Page Protection Alerts in Norton AntiVirus 2006

You start Internet Explorer and you see the alert "Home Page Protection Alert: Norton AntiVirus has blocked an attempt to change your home page to a different address."

Symantec Home Page Protection detects when your home page is changed. Some security risks can change the home page without you knowing it, or you may have manually changed your home page. Whatever the reason, Home Page Protection alerts you of the change the next time that you start Internet Explorer.

Home Page Protection options

Don't change my home page

Your home page will not be changed.
Select this option if your home page was changed without your knowledge.
 

Change to: Web URL Web URL is the URL of the last change that was made before the alert appeared.
  • Select this option if you changed your home page and you want to keep the new changes.
  • Do not select this option if you suspect that your home page was changed without your knowledge. 
Change to: Symantec Home Page Assistance

Select this option if you want information on how to change your home page.
When you select this option, you are sent to the Symantec Home Page Assistance Web site. The page displays instructions on how to change your home page. Follow the steps on that page, and then close Internet Explorer. Start Internet Explorer again, and when you see the alert, select the second menu choice and click OK.
 

Change to: Blank Page

Select this option if you want your home page to be blank.
 

Enter my own page

Select this option if you want to type your own home page URL in Internet Explorer options.

 

What if this didn't work? 


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This document is also for Norton Virus Protection.

 

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Document ID: 2005092908520406
Last Modified: 10/06/2006
Date Created: 09/29/2005
Operating System(s): Windows 2000, Windows XP
Product(s): Norton AntiVirus 2006, Norton Virus Protection