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June 12th 04, 02:58 AM
Mike M
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home page on internet explorer
You've been hijacked, quite possibly by a variant of the CoolWebSearch
parasite. Possibly the CWS.Aboutblank variant
(
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#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
maureen wrote:
I can not get the Home page I choose to stay in my internet
explorer. I have don't everything I know. but went I close
internet explorer and go back to open the home page
reverts back to about
:blank I have deleted about
:blank put
in my new home page it goes to the page but when I close
and go back it come back to about
:blank page
Mike M