IE 9 home page is hijacked by avg

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Published on 2012-04-18T14:54:09Z Indexed on 2012/06/23 3:19 UTC
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I definitely know how to change the home page in Internet Explorer (Tools -> Options -> General). The problem is, no matter what I put there, it never changes. Stop/restart Internet Explorer and the old home page is back.

I did some research to see if there is a registry key that I could tweak to get the home page to set properly. I changed the start page registry key and refreshed the view and the start page key (without even restarting regedit) was reset back to its original value.

Now I'm a little concerned. Maybe there's some virus I can't detect on my system?

Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421
Windows 7 Pro SP 1 x64

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