About:Blank

[Subhash Sharma]

A friend of mine is having problems with IE homepage, no matter what he
does he can't get rid of about:blank hijacker.

Can some one help?

Subhash

 

[Rush]

A friend of mine is having problems with IE homepage, no matter what he
does he can't get rid of about:blank hijacker.

Can some one help?

Subhash

If your friend has run the usual anti-spyware software like Ad-aware and
Spybot and are still having problems, I would recommend trying HijackThis.

If you friend needs assistance, there is a short article here:
http://www.bythedrop.com/content.php?article.7

Rush
http://www.bythedrop.com

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

A friend of mine is having problems with IE homepage, no matter what he
does he can't get rid of about:blank hijacker.

Can some one help?

Subhash

First, if you don't have WinXP SP2, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair
damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
save it because you might need to repair the Winsock 2 stacks after removing
the culprit.
For WinXP SP2 this command will restore the Winsock stacks if you can't
connect after clearing the malware.
Go to Start | Run and type
CMD
In the command window type
netsh winsock reset
Then get CWShredder
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html

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