internet explorer homepage hijack

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:28:20 -0700

internet explorer will not change its address bar. I have
tried to delete the cookies, history and temp files. I
have changed the homepage back to google and yet each
time I hit enter it tries to go to (http://www.best-
search.info/1526/). How is this happening and how do I
stop it

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