HOME PAGE PROBLEMS

[Gina]

This is minor compared to some other problems posted, but
very irritating to me. Since installing the Windows XP
service pack update, I cannot set my own home page. No
matter how many times I set it to what I want, the next
time I click on Internet Explorer, a page
called "ABOUT:BLANK" comes up (top of window says "Home
Search - Microsoft Internet Explorer") . . . can anyone
please tell me how to get rid of this and have the home
page I select stay there each and every time. I have
done everything the books and help files say to do, but
ABOUT:BLANK will not go away !!!!!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following programs to check for any spyware that might be on
your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder -http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[D-Dawg]

This is minor compared to some other problems posted, but
very irritating to me. Since installing the Windows XP
service pack update, I cannot set my own home page. No
matter how many times I set it to what I want, the next
time I click on Internet Explorer, a page
called "ABOUT:BLANK" comes up (top of window says "Home
Search - Microsoft Internet Explorer") . . . can anyone
please tell me how to get rid of this and have the home
page I select stay there each and every time. I have
done everything the books and help files say to do, but
ABOUT:BLANK will not go away !!!!!

infected by trojan. i think it's formally called "Trojan.StartPage" on the
symantec website.

 

[Rock]

This is minor compared to some other problems posted, but
very irritating to me. Since installing the Windows XP
service pack update, I cannot set my own home page. No
matter how many times I set it to what I want, the next
time I click on Internet Explorer, a page
called "ABOUT:BLANK" comes up (top of window says "Home
Search - Microsoft Internet Explorer") . . . can anyone
please tell me how to get rid of this and have the home
page I select stay there each and every time. I have
done everything the books and help files say to do, but
ABOUT:BLANK will not go away !!!!!

If the other suggestions don't fix it you may need to run HijackThis and
post the log to another specialty forum, _NOT_ this one. about:blank
can be hard to get rid of.

HijackThis
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155

Forums to Interpret HijackThis Logs:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/