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I have set my homepage to be http://my.yahoo.com. this works for about 2 minutes, then explorer defaults back to "about:blank" No matter how many times i change it and apply the settings, it always goes back to "about:blank" any ideas? I'm running XP, IE6, everything is up to date, & adaware.

 

[Jan Il]

I have set my homepage to be http://my.yahoo.com. this works for about 2

minutes, then explorer defaults back to "about:blank" No matter how many
times i change it and apply the settings, it always goes back to
"about:blank" any ideas? I'm running XP, IE6, everything is up to date, &
adaware.

Please see the following:

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ABOUT BLANK

Courtesy of Mike Maltby - MS MVP:

You've been hijacked, quite possibly by a variant of the CoolWebSearch
parasite. Possibly the CWS.Aboutblank variant
(http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#aboutblank)

Download and run CWShredder
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip) which is the best
wayof getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details of
which can be found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp..

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware
6.0 from Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also
SpyBot
Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them to check
your system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are only as
good
as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a program called
BHODemon (http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm that checks for
unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.
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HTH

Jan