1st encounter with about:blank

[Guest]

I seem to have some version of this. The about:blank appears most often when
I am attempting to close an IE window. It seems to hang for a few seconds
then close. Sometimes it takes quite a bit of time to close. The page is
also blank. My Home Page has stayed the same and I have no problems opening
new windows. It just seems to be more annoying than malicious at this point.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to correct this? I am running IE
6 on XP. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[Donny Broome]

Try the fine products detailed on my spyware information page below.
http://www.broomeman.com/spyware/

I personally prefer Ad-Aware and SpySweeper.


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[PA Bear]

Checking for/Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and_Prevention:_Introduction
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/tshoot.html
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

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http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7,
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