Protect firefox

[LunarWolf]

Is there any add-ons that I can install in firefox to prevent my hompeage from being change by a program

eg driver pack 9 professional which will change the my homepage?

Or can I use Winpatrol for that? As far as I know, winpatrol only monitor IE.

[A Guy]

It's not an addon, but believe either Spyware Blaster or Spyware Guard will keep your browser from being hijacked, and works on IE and Firefox.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

A Guy

[shan]

this might help
http://blog.enrii.com/2006/11/07/lock-firefox-preferences/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091106184828AAqPvnV

and i think in driver pack u have the choise not to change the home page it has got to have if not it would an adware

[grr]

nobody will change the homepage...

in case it is getting changed on it's own; once u set to abc.xyz; then u need to scan ur system thoroughly for malwares, trojans & other bugs

[LunarWolf]

Any other way than entering about:confg?

@shan,

DriverPack Solution 9 Professional is really good and useful but I still didn’t like the fact that it hijacks Internet Explorer’s default website and change it to start.drp.su.

Quoted from here.

@grr,
You never know. In case you accidentally forgotten to uncheck make my homepage to abcd.com, ff wil become abcd.com when you open it. I prefer something like abcd want s to change your ff homepage. Do you allow. Something like what winpatrol does. Unfortunately, it only detect for IE. Many things now come with abcd.com services like ask.com services.

[hellnoire]

To fix the browser hijack and the language:
-Open the ‘Tools’ folder
-Open ‘config.js’ with Notepad
-Change ‘lang’ to have ‘en’ instead of ‘ru’
-Change ’startPageIns’ to have ‘false’ instead of ‘true’

and that’s it!

Also from the same page, Lunar... you might do wise to read up yet

[LunarWolf]

@hellnoire, I don't understand what are you saying.

I went to tools, I can't see that thing you mention.
I went to about:config, nothing.
I went into my firefox folder, there is no tools.

[hellnoire]

In the program you're quoting off Lunar... DriverPack Solution.

This isn't a FF fix, this is a DriverPack fix!

[grr]

This tweak might help:

1) Open Mozilla Firefox and from the Menu bar options Goto Tools-->Options
and set the homepage to your desired link and press OK button.

2) Close Firefox window and Goto Start-->Run... and type in the following
and press OK
%appdata%\mozilla\firefox\profiles

3) In the profiles window, you get to see a folder named (somenumbercode).default
open it and find a file named prefs (its a JScript Script file) and change its attributes to Read-only.

4) Restart Firefox.

Now all your Firefox preferences including Homepage is locked n cannot be changed until you remove that Read-only attribute of Prefs.js


or


for another option read this:

Locking Mozilla Firefox Settings

Hope it's worth..