Same Problem

[Russell Smith]

I have the same problem. I hit internet explorer and the
site that now comes up is about blank.com when it used to
be MSN. I have tried changing internet options to show
MSN as my home page and even went into tools and changed
it there. It always returns as about blank. Someone
please help us.l

[Mike M]

Same problem = Same solution. Did you read that solution? If not I've copied
it below.

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



Russell Smith > wrote:

> I have the same problem. I hit internet explorer and the
> site that now comes up is about blank.com when it used to
> be MSN. I have tried changing internet options to show
> MSN as my home page and even went into tools and changed
> it there. It always returns as about blank. Someone
> please help us.l