\nStartPage Guard (SPG) protects your PC from cyberscam, by monitoring status of your internet browser StartPage and preventing it from any unauthorized changes. If any changes are detected SPG takes an appropriate action. It can either alert the user indicating which settings has been changed, and with the single mouse-click revert all changes, or if selected - it will revert all changes automatically, without requesting user assistance.
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\nMalicious programs (viruses, trojans, backdoors, etc.) sometime change the StartPage to "gain the ground". Spywares use this way to invade user's privacy by tracking destinations which user visited, and collecting personal information. In some cases this activity may be totally transparent to the user. But most often this is just plain annoyance when start page is changed without asking user's permission.
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\nSTARTPAGE GUARD WINDOW LAYOUT
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104 1. Current StartPage
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\nDisplays start page address which is currently set as a start page in your Internet Browser.
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\n2. Selected StartPage
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\nYou can enter here the address you want to use as the default start page. SPG will remember this address and "guard it" against any unauthorised change. Every time you start SPG it will display here address of your selected start page.
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\n3. StartPage Selector
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\nLet you quickly choose the start page.
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\n- Current StartPage - the StartPage which is saved in your Internet Browser.
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\n- Selected StartPage - the StartPage you have entered as a start page of your choice. This is the page which will be "guarded" by SPG.
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\n- Blank Page. - you may select also a blank page as your StartPage.
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\n4. Close Button
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\nExit application.
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\n5. Help Button
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\nDisplays this help screen.
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105 6. SEARCHPAGE GUARD button
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\n- Observe the color of the button. If RED some search page settings has been changed and user assistance is required. If GREEN all search page settings are OK.
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\n- Click to enter SearchPage Guard.
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\n7.Status Line
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\nShows status messages.
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\n8. Revert to Selected CheckBox
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\nAvailable when "Check StartPage when Windows starts" is enabled. If StartPage change has been detected it will change it back to your default selected StartPage without requesting confirmation from user.
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\n9. Check StartPage when Windows start CheckBox
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\nIf checked, it will monitor your StartPage settings every time you restart Windows. If changes are detected it will either inform you or (if "Revert to Selected CheckBox" is checked) it will silently change the StartPage to the one you have selected.
106 Sometime when you try to change your home page in the Internet Options dialog box, you may encounter problem that you are unable to type in the Address box, and the following buttons: Use Current, Use Default, Use Blank are unavailable (greyed).
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\nThis issue can occur if you are using a customized version of Internet Explorer that was packaged by using Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK).
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\nIf Indicator displays the lock bounded in circle it indicates that lock is in effect. To remove lock click once on Indicator's lock icon. To set the lock on - click icon again.
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\nPLEASE NOTE:
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\nI endeavor to create software which is "CPU friendly" - software that saves CPU cycles, memory etc., leaving more power for other applications. (SAVING RESOURCES IS GOOD right ? =) SPG's modus operandi is based on PASSIVE model - security.
107 Instead of running in the background (and stealing resources from the computer) - it works only when it is called, and (if selected) when Windows starts. If it is required to run SPG check more often - SPG can be run from the command line, scheduler, or AT service. For instance:
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\n- if SPG should check start page and quit - if no changes detected:
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\n SPGUARD /S
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\n- if SPG should check start page, fix if changed without prompting, and quit:
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\n SPGUARD /S /R
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\nI hope that this information will help you utilize SPG to the full extent.
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\nCONTACT AUTHOR
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\nPlease send your comments and questions to software@pjwalczak.com
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\nThank you.
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108
\nSearchPage Guard is a power-extension to the StartPage Guard.
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\n* It puts the user in control over all SearchPage settings.
\nBy default IE user have a very limited access to SearchPage settings (literally no access beyond Custom-Search). Using SearchPage Guard user can individually select different URL for Default Search URL / Search Page / Search Bar / Search URL / Search Assistant, or set single URL for all at once.
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\n* It monitors all SearchPage settings. If any changes are detected SPG takes an appropriate action. It can either alert the user indicating which settings has been changed, and with the single mouse-click revert all changes, or if selected - it will revert all changes automatically, without requesting user assistance.
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\n1. BOOT.
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\nThis very boot (military grade) is professionally applied to all detected creeps that invades your browser.
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\n2. Current SearchPage URL settings.
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109 - GREEN - default, no changes detected.
\n - RED - URL changed - assistance required.
\n - NOT USED - this key has not been created.
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\n3. Status Line
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\nProvides additional information.
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\n4. Single Address checkbox
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\nIf checked all search URL will point to a single address entered in Single Address edit box.
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\n5. SET Single Address button
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\nWhen pressed applies URL from Single Address edit box to all SearchPage URLs.
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\n6. Single Address edit box
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\nHere you can type in or select from pop-up list address which will be applied to all SearchPage URLs.
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\n7. FIX button.
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\nTthis button is only visible when SearchPage Guard detected changes to search page settings. By pressing this button all changes are automatically reverted to user-selected settings.
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\n8. HELP button
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\nThis help window.
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\n9. CLOSE button
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\nExits SearchPage Guard window.
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61440 Open
61441 Save As
61442 All Files (*.*)
61443 Untitled
61446 an unnamed file
61457 &Hide
61472 No error message is available.
61473 An unsupported operation was attempted.
61474 A required resource was unavailable.
61475 Out of memory.
61476 An unknown error has occurred.
61696 Invalid filename.
61697 Failed to open document.
61698 Failed to save document.
61699 Save changes to %1?
61700 Failed to create empty document.
61701 The file is too large to open.
61702 Could not start print job.
61703 Failed to launch help.
61704 Internal application error.
61705 Command failed.
61706 Insufficient memory to perform operation.
61707 System registry entries have been removed and the INI file (if any) was deleted.
61708 Not all of the system registry entries (or INI file) were removed.
61709 This program requires the file %s, which was not found on this system.
61710 This program is linked to the missing export %s in the file %s. This machine may have an incompatible version of %s.
61712 Please enter an integer.
61713 Please enter a number.
61714 Please enter an integer between %1 and %2.
61715 Please enter a number between %1 and %2.
61716 Please enter no more than %1 characters.
61717 Please select a button.
61718 Please enter an integer between 0 and 255.
61719 Please enter a positive integer.
61720 Please enter a date and/or time.
61721 Please enter a currency.
61728 Unexpected file format.
61729 %1\nCannot find this file.\nPlease verify that the correct path and file name are given.
61730 Destination disk drive is full.
61731 Unable to read from %1, it is opened by someone else.
61732 Unable to write to %1, it is read-only or opened by someone else.
61733 An unexpected error occurred while reading %1.
61734 An unexpected error occurred while writing %1.
61836 Unable to read write-only property.
61837 Unable to write read-only property.
61840 Unable to load mail system support.
61841 Mail system DLL is invalid.
61842 Send Mail failed to send message.
61856 No error occurred.
61857 An unknown error occurred while accessing %1.
61858 %1 was not found.
61859 %1 contains an invalid path.
61860 %1 could not be opened because there are too many open files.
61861 Access to %1 was denied.
61862 An invalid file handle was associated with %1.
61863 %1 could not be removed because it is the current directory.
61864 %1 could not be created because the directory is full.
61865 Seek failed on %1
61866 A hardware I/O error was reported while accessing %1.
61867 A sharing violation occurred while accessing %1.
61868 A locking violation occurred while accessing %1.
61869 Disk full while accessing %1.
61870 An attempt was made to access %1 past its end.
61872 No error occurred.
61873 An unknown error occurred while accessing %1.
61874 An attempt was made to write to the reading %1.
61875 An attempt was made to access %1 past its end.
61876 An attempt was made to read from the writing %1.
