[varina davis]

I like Norton, too, for the most part, but it sure didn't detect whatever infiltrated my browser homepage in December. My registry is contaminated with a foreign homepage that I don't know how to delete. Maddening.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My registry is contaminated with a foreign homepage that I don't know how to delete.

Download and run a program called "HiJackThis!".

Look for the homepage entry in the listing that gets generated and have HiJackThis delete it. Done.

[holymoly]

I like Norton, too, for the most part, but it sure didn't detect whatever infiltrated my browser homepage in December. My registry is contaminated with a foreign homepage that I don't know how to delete.

Norton is an anti-virus. It sounds as though your browser has been hijacked (Are you using Internet Explorer?).

On the off chance someone hasn't addressed this yet, here are a couple of free tools which may be of help:

Adaware SE

Spybot Search and Destroy

To avoid this type of thing in the future, you might want to use Spybots' real-time protection "Teatimer", and/or WinPatrol (also free).

Once your system is clean, you may want to install Spywareblaster

If you're using MSIE, you may also want to consider switching to Firefox, Seamonkey, or Opera.