The "about:blank" page is not blank anymore. It appears a
lot of links and pulicity about spyware but i cannot
change my homepage!! I have used reglite and hickjackThis
but i cannot fix the problem. Please help me! this is a
very unconfortable situation. I know a lot of people with
the same problem

>-----Original Message-----
>The "about:blank" page is not blank anymore. It appears a
>lot of links and pulicity about spyware but i cannot
>change my homepage!! I have used reglite and hickjackThis
>but i cannot fix the problem. Please help me! this is a
>very unconfortable situation. I know a lot of people with
>the same problem
>.
>I've been bit with this, too.....I have a new Dell with
XP, and not only do I get this stupid about:blank screen
with the search that I cannot change, I get popups in
Hotmail, I cannot restore my machine to any settings prior
to this month (which are all screwed), and my printer has
been unlinked and I cannot get my Add Printer option to
work. I've tried cleaning my files and registry, but it
always comes back on boot-up (obviously, there's something
I'm missing....I'm no expert, and it seems that's what you
need for this problem. Dell suggests I wipe and reload my
machine, but according to them, I have to practically go
back to the bare metal to do it.....no format C and reload
the OS and software. Microsoft charges for support, but I
think since it's a security issue with THEIR software,
they should offer free support to fix the problem. If
this is the problem they just released a fix for last
Friday, they've apparently known about it for nine freakin
months! If anyone has a method of fixing this, I sure
would appreciate it.

The latest CoolWebSearch About:Blank creates a random file name, makes it
hard to identity.

The latest version of AD-Aware may help. Download it, get the check for
updates and run it.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

If that fails then get help from this forum. Note the new HJT version.

Go to http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Download "Hijack This!" [freeware] Latest version is 1.98.

Unzip the Download file in a NEW FOLDER that you can create before you start
the download.
DO NOT install in your Desktop folder.
DO NOT use any of the TEMP folders that are presently in your computer.
Double-click "HijackThis.exe" and Press "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Click: "Save Log" (generates "hijackthis.log")

Next, HijackThis | Config [button] | Misc Tools [button]
Click: Generate StartupList log [button] (generates "startuplist.txt")

Next, go to the below location:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/

Sign in, then copy and paste both files in your message.

HijackThis Quick Start Help
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

The Tutorial if you want to know more about the results or the .log file.
http://www.merijn.org/htlogtutorial.html

--

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
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"CaMiLo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:26b4201c462c6$01079fa0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The "about:blank" page is not blank anymore. It appears a
> lot of links and pulicity about spyware but i cannot
> change my homepage!! I have used reglite and hickjackThis
> but i cannot fix the problem. Please help me! this is a
> very unconfortable situation. I know a lot of people with
> the same problem