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[oldman]

No problem. Glad it worked for you. Take care.

[sasysusie]

Everything seems be fine except for the fact that my homepage keeps changing to the Windows Live ID sign in page.. it just seems to do it and Im not sure why.. but if you feel thats not something i need to be concerned with I won't be and ill just deal with it.
Thanks
Susie

[oldman]

The next time you open a browser and it takes you to the sign in page, check in that browser, in internet options to see what your homepage is set to. If you have your homepage locked in SAS, then that's the only place you can change it. SAS should also warn you of the attempted change.

Click this link and tell me if this is your homepage.

http://sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx

That's where I end up when I use the link you provided as your home page.

[sasysusie]

Hi.. actually what I always had as a home page until just the other day is this link  http://www.msn.com/.  Now that is what it is using again... so im just confused why from hour to hour it seems to change... I did go into SAS and I thought i set it to this home  page and I also went to internet options and I sure thought I set it there too.. If you don't think this is anything I need to worry about I won't... I just found it a little strange is all. Thanks for you help..I know you have lots a bigger issues you need to help people with..
Thanks as always
Susie

[oldman]

The link you just posted is a bit different then the one you posted before. The previous link had a redirect in it, that why I ended up at the sympatico page that I posted the link to.

I did go to SAS and followed your directions this what they had as my home page, http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=msnhome, which is the one i have used forever

This what you said was your home page. As I said that takes me to
http://sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx

Which is Msn Canada. We may end up on  different site because we are indifferent countries.

Are you sure that in both internet options and SAS that this link appears?

 http://www.msn.com/

with nothing else behind it? Remember to change your home page, you must do it from SAS or uncheck the boxes, change your home page, recheck the boxes.

I'm thinking a faulty redirect .

Let's try a little experiment.

1. click the link in the quote box, where do you end up?
2. try it a few times with a new browser each time. What happens?
 

[sasysusie]

I honestly don't know where that address came from... as far as I know ive never used that address not on purpose anyway... I went into SAS and into my tools, internet options and have made sure the http://www.msn.com/ address is in there again!.. So far so good...I just can't figure out how it all got changed to begin with. But.. now that i made changes again lets hope it all holds!!!
Your the best
Thank you,
Susie

[oldman]

You may well have had the other address as a homepage before.

This address http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=msnhome I believe is a generic MSN home page link. Dependiing on where you are in the world, clicking on it will take you to the home page for your part of the world.

I think what may have happened to you, for some reason, it couldn't be determined where you were, or the server just screwed up and sent you to the Windows Live sign in.

Maybe someone here on the forum from Europe, Asia, S America, etc could try and confirm this.

Anyway, with what you are now using, you should end up on your homepage each time. 

[rdmaloyjr]

When ever I click on http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=msnhome , I get redirected to http://home.mobile.msn.com/en-us/default.aspx 

This is with my computer!  My cellphone doesn't have a internet browser, it's not internet capable!  It's a pay as you go.  Some pay as you go cell phones can brows the web, but not mine.

[oldman]

Hi rdmaloyjr

Does it look like a msn homepage? Like I said I end up on a sympatico.msn home page. Try the link  http://sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx

Don't worry it's save. Ant similarities?

[rdmaloyjr]

Hi oldman,

It looks like a msn home page.  Msn thinks I'm a cellphone user, but with http://sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx, msn thinks I'm someone else.

I posted in this thread because I think it is msn that is messing up not some spyware or malware on sasysusie's computer.

[oldman]

Hi rdmaloyjr

Thanks for helping out. That's what I thought, a quirky redirect. I still think it may be a generic msn homepage redirect that's messing up.

The sympatico link is direct link to the page, whereas using the orignal link I get redirected there.

Sasie should be all right now, she is now using a direct link to her homepage.