[RickM]

Here's another method. However, I expect it to be a bandaid approach....perhaps good enough till more is known.

"This is what I finally had to do to stop it from hijacking my start page. I tried everything and could never find out where it was replicating itself from.

First I went into windows and deleted the start.chm files there was two originally and one would replicate itself after about five minutes and place another start.chm file. It was a 11k, so I went into the windows help folder and found another file that was 11k copied it and renamed it start.chm. Then I went into the properties of the file and made it read only. That stopped it from replicating into my windows folder.

Now I did try and make a file from scratch called start.chm and made it read only but (it was not 11k) but that didnt work it still was able to replicate itself somehow. So again that is why I went and copied an already existing 11k chm (help) file."