About:Blank

[Guest]

I want my default IE homepage to be www.yahoo.com. NO matter how many times
I go into options and change the default home page, everytime I re-open
Internet explorer, it is still saying my homepage is About:Blank. How do I
get this fixed?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 may display a blank Web page
after you select Auto-Select encoding
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870863

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| I want my default IE homepage to be www.yahoo.com. NO matter how many times
| I go into options and change the default home page, everytime I re-open
| Internet explorer, it is still saying my homepage is About:Blank. How do I
| get this fixed?


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[Venkatesh [MS India Community Star]]

Your Internet Explorer home page is reset to "about:blank" and Windows
AntiSpyware (Beta) unexpectedly quits in Windows 2000, Windows XP, or
Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;894269

Also, see here:
http://www.pchell.com/support/aboutblank.shtml

 

[PA Bear]

Check for Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/