home page hijacked
 

Hi. Whenever I boot up explorer, my home page comes up blank, with
about:blank as the address. I go into Internet tools to restore my
home page, but next time I boot up the blank page has taken over
again.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Dave

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/

PC Hell- homepage changing to res--random.dll-index.html:
http://www.pchell.com/support/onlythebest.shtml

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

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

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


"david rubien" wrote in message
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Hi. Whenever I boot up explorer, my home page comes up blank, with
about:blank as the address. I go into Internet tools to restore my
home page, but next time I boot up the blank page has taken over
again.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Dave

(david rubien) wrote:

Hi. Whenever I boot up explorer, my home page comes up blank, with
about:blank as the address. I go into Internet tools to restore my
home page, but next time I boot up the blank page has taken over
again.

Googling on "about:blank" turns up
http://www.securiteam.com/securityre...RP0L0UD5U.html as well as
many other pages

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)