IE Search home page

[Rufus]

I am having a promblem with IE for Win XP,everytime I open
up a browser it goes to a Blank Search website,I have
deleted all Temp files,ran Spyware software done a virus
scan,but promblem still remains,when I go into tools and
change it it will keep for about 5 mins then defaults back
to this Blank search page,any help would be appreciated.

Rufus

 

[DZ]

Sounds like you're on a workstation in a domain that has
a GPO setting for the home page of IE. IF this is the
case, your company's administrator is controlling where
the home page is set to and you will not be able to
change it.

 

[Guest]

this is my Home PC stand alone,using High Speed,so i don't
think that would be a factor,any other suggestions

 

[Guest]

Read the follwoing article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;320159&Product=ie600

Sounds like you may have a trojan even though nothing is
coming up on the virus scan. It may be worthwhile to
rebuild the machine if you can.

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't rebuild your system, that's a bit of overkill...

Try checking the following registry keys for any unusual programs.

\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Winodows\CurrentVersion\Run

Also, check your processes (CRTL + ALT + DEL Then click Task List)

Check the process names here (http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm)

Hope this helps!

Jeff

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
This hijack can be difficult to remove.
First run CWShredder http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html you
may be lucky enough to have the variety that's easy to remove. (Alternate
site for CWShredder http://www.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip)

If that doesn't resolve the problem, work through these links:
Ad-aware, with the latest updates, has fixed this for some users
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

AumHa Forums- res [random].dll-sp.html CWS Variant:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=6207
and
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=6466
Computer Cops - aboutblank:
http://computercops.biz/article-5199-nested-0-0.html
Removing the AboutBlank Virus
http://www.akadia.com/services/about_blank_virus.html
AboutBlank homepage- Security at DaniWeb computer support:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5531.html
PC Hell- Only The Best popups and homepage changing to
res--random.dll-index.html: http://www.pchell.com/support/onlythebest.shtml

Security tips and other useful information at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Hope this helps,
Don

 

[Guest]

thanx for the suggestions,I'll look into it and let you
know ho it turns out...