about;blank

[Guest]

Whenever I start IE6, I get "about;blank" on the address line, and some kind of shopping page with many links on it. I tried Ad-Aware, CWshredder, Spywarehsredder, all to no avail
Please help with this annoying problem

Thank

 

[Mr Fix It Myself]

did you update the CWShredder? Visit this site and
review all the variants to see if your particular issue
has been documented... if not may need to send Hijack
this file to CWShredder for research and possible fixes.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#smar
tfinder

-----Original Message-----
Whenever I start IE6, I get "about;blank" on the address

line, and some kind of shopping page with many links on
it. I tried Ad-Aware, CWshredder, Spywarehsredder, all to
no avail.

 

[siljaline]

Whenever I start IE6, I get "about;blank" on the address line, and some kind of

shopping page with many links on it. I tried Ad-Aware, CWshredder, Spywarehsredder,
all to no avail.

Please help with this annoying problem.

Thanks

CWShredder should address this issue.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#aboutblank
Download the latest version of CWShredder and run it.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Close all Browser Windows and running applications, unzip the tool, click
on the executable and follow the prompts.
Ensure that you have detected items sent to trash so that they are retrievable.

HTH
~Silj

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siljaline

MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
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is invalid - that we may all benefit)

 

[abc]

Whenever I start IE6, I get "about;blank" on the address line, and some kind of shopping page with many links on it. I tried Ad-Aware, CWshredder, Spywarehsredder, all to no avail.
Please help with this annoying problem.

Thanks

I couldnt get CWShredder 1.54 to delete mine either but this is what
I did to eventually get rid of mine.

From my observation, CoolWeb uses a .dll script file in
windows\server32 to do its dirty business (Win XP).

Its randomly named so finding it can take some work. The first time I
ran spybot, it came back with the exact name of the file, I simply
renamed it and problem solved.

Unfortunately though, I went into my registry editor and removed the
keys settings that coolweb installed so Im not sure (yet) if those are
random or not.

Then it came back again. For some reason spybot knew it was
there but wouldnt give the exact file name. Fortunately tho as I went
through a couple of the dll files with a text editor I found it in a
file starting with "aab". Luck of the draw, I guess, since it
randomly names the file.

Anyways this may help... I hope so because I know your frustration.

One of the registry keys that held the name of the script file was:

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\
{3B0A5AEE-9AD5-4CDD-A69F-63E5562BE6A0}\InProcServer32

If you find a dll file listed for that key do a search for it (mine
was in the server32 subdirectory of windows. Then open it in notepad
to be sure its the right one (scroll through it and you should see
text that shows up in your about:blank page). Rename it to something
like <filename>.bak. Then reset your default webpage.