Cannot get rid of the about:blank Home Page

[Fritz]

Riddle me this. If not a virus, the what could cause your home page
to automatically change to "about:blank?" Here is the situation. I
set my home page to "http://www.yahoo.com/," and then clicked on
apply. As long as Internet Explorer is open my home page will stay
the way I set it, but as soon as I close Internet Explorer and re-open
it, the home page has changed back to "about:blank." This problem
just came up yesterday. Until then I did not have any problems. My
first thought was the Deutsche Telekom DSL Speed Manager I installed
was the culprit, but I have since uninstalled that program and the
problem still persists. Thinking it might help, I went to Microsoft
Updates and downloaded the latest Internet Explore patch. That did
not help. As soon as I pressed the scan for updates link, Microsoft
notified me that I had a spyware program installed on my machine, and
one of the things they claimed these programs might do is change your
home page. So, I immediately uninstalled my spyware program, that is
after I ran it one last time to see if there was anything on my system
that might be causing the problem, which there wasn't. After each
change I would reboot, but that did not help either. I also tried
changing the privacy levels with regard to cookies, and the like but
that did not help either. Before this all started they were set to
high, and I was not having any problems. So, needless to say I am at
wits end. I don't know what else to do except uninstall Explorer. Do
you have any idea what could be causing the problem. Besides under
tools, internet options, general, home page, where else can a home
page be set, if at all, as the default for Explorer?

 

[Guest]

I found something that worked for me. I have been
working on this for hours and tried everything possible.
If found a link to this website and downloaded the
program and it worked instantly. Good Luck and here is
the link
www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

 

[Guest]

Wenn du von Deutscland kommst schreiben wir Deitsc
Der Hijacker ist CoolWebSearch
Eine version von "about:blank" ist mit CWShredder zu entfernen aber die andere nicht
CWShredder http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.htm

Für die zweite version muss man Hijack This downloaden auch bei Majorgeek
Poste dein Hijack This Logfile,in einer der Folgenden ‘Expert Forums’
http://board.protecus.de/
http://www.trojaner-board.de/

Wenn alles wieder normal ist sollte man die folgende IP adressen blockieren im Firewall,Sygate kann da
81.211.105.0 bis 81.211.105.255,209.66.114.0 bis 209.66.115.255,213.159.117.0 bis 213.159.118.25

Und dies ist auch eine möglichkeit http://www.rokop-security.de/main/article.php?sid=746&mode=thread&order=

----- Fritz wrote: ----

Riddle me this. If not a virus, the what could cause your home pag
to automatically change to "about:blank?" Here is the situation.
set my home page to "http://www.yahoo.com/," and then clicked o
apply. As long as Internet Explorer is open my home page will sta
the way I set it, but as soon as I close Internet Explorer and re-ope
it, the home page has changed back to "about:blank." This proble
just came up yesterday. Until then I did not have any problems. M
first thought was the Deutsche Telekom DSL Speed Manager I installe
was the culprit, but I have since uninstalled that program and th
problem still persists. Thinking it might help, I went to Microsof
Updates and downloaded the latest Internet Explore patch. That di
not help. As soon as I pressed the scan for updates link, Microsof
notified me that I had a spyware program installed on my machine, an
one of the things they claimed these programs might do is change you
home page. So, I immediately uninstalled my spyware program, that i
after I ran it one last time to see if there was anything on my syste
that might be causing the problem, which there wasn't. After eac
change I would reboot, but that did not help either. I also trie
changing the privacy levels with regard to cookies, and the like bu
that did not help either. Before this all started they were set t
high, and I was not having any problems. So, needless to say I am a
wits end. I don't know what else to do except uninstall Explorer. D
you have any idea what could be causing the problem. Besides unde
tools, internet options, general, home page, where else can a hom
page be set, if at all, as the default for Explorer