# Damn you, Freeze.com! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873 "2005-04-05T17:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/1 "2005-04-05T17:41:31Z")
My wife, not knowing any better, went to [Freeze.com](http://Freeze.com), just to have a nose around. She somehow let it become her homepage - AND NOW THERE’S NO WAY TO REMOVE IT! She’s running XP, and I’ve tried everything I can think of to get rid of - homepage to “blank,” homepage to _any other site_… But NO! There is Freeze, and Freeze again! We have a spyware monitor installed, but it’s not picking up anything. I go to the site, and I can find no instructions on how to de-select their crappy page! I consider it intrusive and unwelcome, as well as a waste of bandwidth. Anyone else know how to dump the damned thing? Or do you know of other pages that hijack Explorer like this? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/2 "2005-04-05T17:58:45Z")
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/3 "2005-04-05T18:01:13Z")
I assume you’ve already run Ad-Aware and Spybot? ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/4 "2005-04-05T18:13:49Z")
You need a young priest and an old priest… also, try [Hijack This!](http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/) , if you are computer savvy and have already run AdAware and SpyBot ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/5 "2005-04-05T18:15:38Z")
This has happened to me a couple of times with different sites. What are you using for your browser? If it’s internet explorer, then try running adaware, spybot, and a good virus detector. The site somehow somewhere seems to have a hold on your system and hopefully these programs will detect it and help remove it. If you are using mozilla or another alternate browser, my suggestion is to delete the browser from your system, run adaware, spybot, and the virus detector, then reinstall the browser. This worked for me when I was using mozilla. As it has already been suggested, install and use an alternate browser. I highly recommend mozilla firefox. Most spyware and the like are designed using flaws in internet explorer. Mozilla for the most part does not have these same flaws and in turn helps prevent most spyware from being able to embed itself into your computer. Good luck! DoperChic ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/6 "2005-04-05T18:18:01Z")
Assuming they aren’t sleazy enough to get you to put more crap on your PC, their support page [http://support.freeze.com/](http://support.freeze.com/) seems to deal with this question. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/7 "2005-04-05T18:43:38Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > My wife, not knowing any better, went to [Freeze.com](http://Freeze.com), just to have a nose around. She somehow let it become her homepage - AND NOW THERE’S NO WAY TO REMOVE IT! And this of course makes you want to buy [Freeze.com](http://Freeze.com) products. :rolleyes: Where do some of these jokers get their marketing notions from? Al Capone? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/8 "2005-04-05T18:49:21Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > [http://www.opera.com](http://www.opera.com) > [http://www.mozilla.org](http://www.mozilla.org) > [http://www.netscape.com](http://www.netscape.com) I just spend a considerable amount of time scanning through those sites, but I just can’t seem to find the pages that have the instructions for correcting this Internet Explorer browser hijack. Can you perhaps link directly to the page that deals with the topic in the OP? Thanks, Binarydrone ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/9 "2005-04-05T18:55:55Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > Assuming they aren’t sleazy enough to get you to put more crap on your PC, their support page [http://support.freeze.com/](http://support.freeze.com/) seems to deal with this question. Yeah, but you know what? Rather than just answering my question directly, they want to know my flippin’ e-mail address, so’s they can send me a super-secret coded message or something. I’m thinking Firefox is her best bet. I’ve used it, I like it, it works for me; it’ll work for her, too. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/10 "2005-04-05T18:56:02Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > I just spend a considerable amount of time scanning through those sites, but I just can’t seem to find the pages that have the instructions for correcting this Internet Explorer browser hijack. Can you perhaps link directly to the page that deals with the topic in the OP? > > Thanks, > > Binarydrone I believe **neuroman** is pointing you all to better browsers that would permanently fix the the problem. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/11 "2005-04-05T19:12:05Z")
Grab the [Microsoft Antispyware](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en) tool. Don’t let the “Beta” scare you. Chances are good it will un-Freeze you, and thereafter, lock your home page - anything trying to change it will result in a warning box giving you the option to allow or block the change. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/12 "2005-04-05T19:19:50Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Grab the [Microsoft Antispyware](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en) tool. Don’t let the “Beta” scare you. > > Chances are good it will un-Freeze you, and thereafter, lock your home page - anything trying to change it will result in a warning box giving you the option to allow or block the change. Ah, nice one - I’ll admit it, I was a little offput when I saw the “Beta” moniker. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/13 "2005-04-05T20:11:18Z")
> [@5 time champ](#): > > I believe **neuroman** is pointing you all to better browsers that would permanently fix the the problem. Whoooooooooooooooooooosh! ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/14 "2005-04-05T20:27:28Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Whoooooooooooooooooooosh! Ha! You asked the question so _earnestly_ you fooled me too on first reading. I wish the OP the best of luck fixing the IE problem but I offered the links in case he and his wife are interested in saying goodbye to that heavily targeted slagpile of a browser. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-freeze-com/297873/15 "2005-04-05T20:32:13Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > I wish the OP the best of luck fixing the IE problem but I offered the links in case he and his wife are interested in saying goodbye to that heavily targeted slagpile of a browser. Oh, it’s a hard thing, fighting tradition and inertia…