"About Blank" !

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Marty

There is something trying to change my home page (every 1-
2 mins) to About blank. Yet it is not a blank page ,
it's a search page. I have instaled new norton , win patrol
and ad-aware 6.0 and I still cant find out how to deleat
this bug. Can anyone help me?
my email addy is
(e-mail address removed)
 
Hi

Try the following two programs as well to search for any spyware on your system:

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| There is something trying to change my home page (every 1-
| 2 mins) to About blank. Yet it is not a blank page ,
| it's a search page. I have instaled new norton , win patrol
| and ad-aware 6.0 and I still cant find out how to deleat
| this bug. Can anyone help me?
| my email addy is
| (e-mail address removed)
 
-----Original Message-----
There is something trying to change my home page (every 1-
2 mins) to About blank. Yet it is not a blank page ,
it's a search page. I have instaled new norton , win patrol
and ad-aware 6.0 and I still cant find out how to deleat
this bug. Can anyone help me?
my email addy is
(e-mail address removed)
.
have u downloaded any software recently? some software
has a piece in the liscense agreement saying that you
agree to use their homepage, if you have just either
check in the softwares properties or uninstall the
program. that should fix it
 
Marty said:
There is something trying to change my home page (every 1-
2 mins) to About blank. Yet it is not a blank page ,
it's a search page. I have instaled new norton , win patrol
and ad-aware 6.0 and I still cant find out how to deleat
this bug. Can anyone help me?
my email addy is
(e-mail address removed)


I've had (still have?) just the same problem. It seems there's CoolSearch
popping some malware into our computers. If you go to HijackThis the program
will show you what's there in the Registry (but it doesn't give any advice
on what you should delete). But you'll see about:blank in the Registry
entries. I just check the boxes, there may be more than one, and let it
delete them. (Don't take this as advice from me in case it screws up your
Registry, but it works for me). You also need Adaware and/or Spybot to get
rid of the CoolSearch entries otherwise about:blank will come straight
back..

Rob Graham
 
Rob said:
I've had (still have?) just the same problem. It seems there's
CoolSearch popping some malware into our computers. If you go to
HijackThis the program will show you what's there in the Registry
(but it doesn't give any advice on what you should delete). But
you'll see about:blank in the Registry entries. I just check the
boxes, there may be more than one, and let it delete them. (Don't
take this as advice from me in case it screws up your Registry, but
it works for me). You also need Adaware and/or Spybot to get rid of
the CoolSearch entries otherwise about:blank will come straight
back..

Rob Graham

To remove cool web search spyware / malware:
CWShredder: http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe
 

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