My Homepage and Favorites had been hijacked

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Answer:

Symptom:
A rogue web site attaches itself as your homepage and you are not able to change it.
Web sites that you have not saved as favorites have attached to your favorites folder and are not able to rid them.
Possible Solution:

There are several adware/spyware scanners that may be very affective in riding your system of this problem. I recommend the following:

Adaware 6.0
Spybot S&D
CWShredder
All of these scanners can be downloaded from the Virus Information page for free.