about:blank webpage spoof?

[Mark Mahaney]

My homepage shows a webpage called about:blank. I cannot
reset it to my normal webpage (MSN) for anything and
have reinstalled IE6 per microsoft without result. The
site cannot be traced. Can anyone tell me how to search
and destroy this problem??

 

[Don Varnau]

That's a variant of coolwebsearch
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#aboutblank

CWShredder from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html should
remove it.

You should follow up with Ad-aware and/or Spybot. You may have
other malware installed.
See: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm for more information,
including security tips.

Don
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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

My homepage shows a webpage called about:blank. I cannot
reset it to my normal webpage (MSN) for anything and
have reinstalled IE6 per microsoft without result. The
site cannot be traced. Can anyone tell me how to search
and destroy this problem??

How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

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[Gerald]

-----Original Message-----
My homepage shows a webpage called about:blank. I cannot
reset it to my normal webpage (MSN) for anything and
have reinstalled IE6 per microsoft without result. The
site cannot be traced. Can anyone tell me how to search
and destroy this problem??
.
Mark ,

open the web page you wish to use for your home page,
go to the tools menu on top of IE & select "internet
options", select the general tab & you can set your home
page from the top box by clicking on "use current: &
click ok.