About:blank

[Guest]

I've got this problem at work. A computer came in; (WinXP home; IE 6), the startpage is set for about:blank; but there's a commercial page on the display.

It seems like the about:blank page is "replaced" by the other one. I've installed spy bot and ad-aware; both came up with nothing. I also ran Norman viruscontrol; same story though... In de registery is nothing to be found either; there are a few hits; for example there's a key called start page; with the value about:blank.

When i change it in for instance www.msn.com; and I open the IE; it wil go to msn.com; but when i close it, and re-open it; the key has been changed again to about blank

So my question; can anyone help me on this one??

 

[H Leboeuf]

Check the About:Blank variant of this nasty parasite. Get the removal tool.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
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Clean your computer of all parasites.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm


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I've got this problem at work. A computer came in; (WinXP home; IE 6), the

startpage is set for about:blank; but there's a commercial page on the
display.

It seems like the about:blank page is "replaced" by the other one. I've

installed spy bot and ad-aware; both came up with nothing. I also ran Norman
viruscontrol; same story though... In de registery is nothing to be found
either; there are a few hits; for example there's a key called start page;
with the value about:blank.

When i change it in for instance www.msn.com; and I open the IE; it wil go

to msn.com; but when i close it, and re-open it; the key has been changed
again to about blank.

 

[Guest]

Thanks! It's working again!!!