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Open the Control Panel and select Internet options. Change the home page.
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Open the Control Panel and select Internet options. Change the home page.

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If changing the home page doesn't work or if you change it and it goes back to Baidu you might have some luck running Malwarebytes. <br />
It's free and reliabel. <br />
<a href="http://www.malwarebytes.org" rel="ugc">www.malwarebytes.org</a><br />
Just download, update and run your scan. 
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If changing the home page doesn't work or if you change it and it goes back to Baidu you might have some luck running Malwarebytes.
It's free and reliabel.
www.malwarebytes.org [http://www.malwarebytes.org]
Just download, update and run your scan.

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My wife installed a Chinese English dicitonary, and mistakenly checked the checkbox &quot;Please hijack my browser and set my homepage to baidu.com.<br />
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I have run hijack this, uninstalled all the BHO's I can find, uninstalled the product, and all to no avail.<br />
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baidu is still set to her home page, and I can't figure out what is doing this, and where it is.<br />
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thoughts?
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My wife installed a Chinese English dicitonary, and mistakenly checked the checkbox "Please hijack my browser and set my homepage to baidu.com.

I have run hijack this, uninstalled all the BHO's I can find, uninstalled the product, and all to no avail.

baidu is still set to her home page, and I can't figure out what is doing this, and where it is.

thoughts?

Browser hijack in Win7 IE8

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.

Web Browsers

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.