Hi-jacked

[Steve Hague]

My homepage has been hi- jacked by something called about:blank. Even if I
restore my default home page, IE6 will only go to the about:blank page. I've
tried using regedit to remove it from the registry, but can't find it. Any
suggestions?
Steve Hague.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try all of the following programs to see what spyware is on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| My homepage has been hi- jacked by something called about:blank. Even if I
| restore my default home page, IE6 will only go to the about:blank page. I've
| tried using regedit to remove it from the registry, but can't find it. Any
| suggestions?
| Steve Hague.
|
|

 

[Wesley Vogel]

At this address ?? (e-mail address removed)

 

[Greg]

At this address ?? (e-mail address removed)

Sounds like it might be the CoolWebSearch trojan.

AdAware notes "about:blank" as possible hijack attempt because that is
how CoolWebSearch works.


This link may be of value:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Greg