about;blank

[Guest]

http;//aifind.info keeps trying to take over as my homepage. Iam also not able to get into my msn hotmail. I can get into the msn homepage but when I try to get my mail, the damn thing kicks in My primary homepage is comcast.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try the following programs to see what spyware your system has on it:

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

Also see the following link:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| http;//aifind.info keeps trying to take over as my homepage. Iam
also not able to get into my msn hotmail. I can get into the msn homepage
but when I try to get my mail, the damn thing kicks in My primary homepage
is comcast.

 

[Ron]

It is probable that you're using Adaware, which is
currently flagging about:blank as a "possible hijack
attempt." There may be some malware out there that is re-
missioning about:blank for evil purpose. In any case, if
you delete it in Adaware's process, IE simply reverts to
it's default, which is MSN.

 

[Alex Nichol]

It is probable that you're using Adaware, which is
currently flagging about:blank as a "possible hijack
attempt." There may be some malware out there that is re-
missioning about:blank for evil purpose. In any case, if
you delete it in Adaware's process, IE simply reverts to
it's default, which is MSN.

There is one in CW that introduces AboutBlank - without the colon - and
Adaware is reacting to about:blank, I think mistakenly.

Two courses are possible - right click the detection in AdAware and add
to the Ignore list, or manually change in Internet Options from
about:blank to about:mozilla (a plain blue page)