ABOUT:BLANK

I ALSO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM :ABOUTBLANK: TAKES OVER YOUR
HOME PAGE. THEN BOMBARDS YOU WITH POP UPS FOR SOFT WARE
TO REMOVE IT. THIS HAS GOT TOBE ILIGAL.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE IT


BILL

[Mike M]

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 way
of 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.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



>
wrote:

> I ALSO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM :ABOUTBLANK: TAKES OVER YOUR
> HOME PAGE. THEN BOMBARDS YOU WITH POP UPS FOR SOFT WARE
> TO REMOVE IT. THIS HAS GOT TOBE ILIGAL.
> CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE IT
>
>
> BILL