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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT
- Date added: July 28, 2003
- Total Downloads: 21,456
- Downloads last week: 16
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 8 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program may lack a wealth of features, but it's extremely effective in protecting your computer against home-page hijacking. StartPage Guard uses a simple but functional interface to prevent Trojan horses or other malicious programs from making unauthorized changes to your browser's start and search pages. Options include the ability to select your home page from a drop-down menu or input a URL of your choice. The SearchPage Guard feature lets you designate separate URLs for your default search page, search toolbar, and search assistant. Users also can set one URL in the Single Address field to cover all search functions. This simple but useful program is designed for all users who want to outsmart malicious programs that hijack start and search pages.Publisher's description
From Piotr J. Walczak :Malicious programs (viruses, Trojan horses) sometimes change your start page to invade your privacy and collect personal information. In some cases this activity may be totally transparent to the user. SPG effectively deals with all these problems, making surfing the Net safer, more secure, less frustrating--and more fun. StartPage Guard detects and prevents any unauthorized changes to your browser's start and sSearch pages. It also can automatically remove most known invaders.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 8 votes
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Version: StartPage Guard 2.52
"Perfect protection against malware"
Pros: Protects your startpage at any time and also your search pages are safe now.
Easy interface and easy to use.
Cons: When you select "Check when Windows start" it does so automatically.
I tried to turn it off. But most of the time it just came back.
I think I finally managed to turn it off.
That's the only minor con that I could find.
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Version: StartPage Guard 2.52
Summary: This product will make sure your start page is correct if you set it up that way. The problem is when your ISP browser uses for example MSN Explorer and your ISP, in my case Juno uses a modified Explorer. The Juno Explorer will load anyway. I'm sure... read more >>
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Version: StartPage Guard 2.52
Summary: It worked right away! i definitly reccomend this AND IT'S FREE! it is so awesome.
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Version: StartPage Guard 2.52
"StartPage Guard Worked INSTANTLY"
Summary: My homepage constantly reverted to some "off shore" internet site. StartPage cured the problem immediately.
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Version: StartPage Guard 2.52
"Basic and a reliable little tool"
Summary: I can recommend this programme I have been using it for 5 or 6 months. User-friendly and uncomplicated. No problems at all. It does work. You may get Directories like e.g. MSN Messenger and (Yahoo Messenger which I installed from choice) popping u... read more >>
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