Help--My Internet Explorer has been Hijacked by about:blank

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John

My browser has been hijacked and won't allow me to change
it back to by preferred home page. Anyone have any ideas
how I can get it back, besides a stick of dynamite and a
short fuse. If I change my browser to my preferred site,
as soon as I close and return to it, it is changed to;

about:blank

Help!!

I have scanned my system with Norton anti-virus, Ad-Aware
and Spy-bot none of these has detected this about:blank

any help would be most apprecicated
 
Hi John :-)

Try the following and see if it helps.

About Blank Virus

This variant does everything in its powers to redirect you to a domain
owned by 1-se.com. IE is hijacked to it, the hosts file is replaced to
redirect about 100 porn and CWS domains to 1-se.com, and a randomly named
stylesheet is dropped that redirects to 1-se.com when certain keywords
appear in webpages.

About Blank
http://www.akadia.com/services/about_blank_virus.html

CWShredder direct download:
http://209.133.47.12/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

CWS Chronicles (Scroll down to Aboutblank)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Also see.....................

Aboutblank - for Win2K
http://www.akadia.com/services/about_blank_virus.html

RegLite - Use for About blank Registry removal
http://www.resplendence.com/download/reglite.

More information here:
http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?s=2872cacc649d4de00da42adf6d8a3303&p=3693696#post3693696

Additional information at:
The Parasite Fight http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

Hope this helps.

Jan :)

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