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Old June 12th 04, 01:25 AM
maureen
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Default home page on internet explorer

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
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Old June 12th 04, 02:58 AM
Mike M
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Default 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



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Old June 17th 04, 03:34 PM
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Default home page on internet explorer

You don't say if you have reset the home page in Tool..
Internet Options General Tab. If not retype the home page
there.

-----Original Message-----
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
.

 




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