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I am using Win 98 SE. I have run SpyBot several times to get rid of the
many unwanted programs and yet there is something that I canīt get rid of: it keeps changing my HOME PAGE to "about blank" almost immediately after re-typing in and hitting Apply. How do I find the problem that is causing this? Any help will be gratefully recieved. Bruce Stokes |
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Hi Bruce,
Here are a couple more removal tools and information links. Ad-Aware make sure to run the update feature before scanning. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html Download Link: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe HijackThis use with respect and caution!: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.php#hjt SpywareBlaster: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware it prevents it from ever being installed. SpywareBlaster is a non memory resident utility. It works by setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. For more information: The Parasite Fight: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Darnit: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Bruce Stokes" wrote I am using Win 98 SE. I have run SpyBot several times to get rid of the many unwanted programs and yet there is something that I canīt get rid of: it keeps changing my HOME PAGE to "about blank" almost immediately after re-typing in and hitting Apply. How do I find the problem that is causing this? Any help will be gratefully recieved. Bruce Stokes |
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It sounds like you have the CoolWebSearch variant CWS.AboutBlank:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#aboutblank Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations: http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe Unzip to a folder other than your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan". When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button. Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or similar). Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet. Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums: http://computercops.biz/forums.html http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=30 http://forum.aumha.org/ http://tomcoyote.org/forums/ http://www.lavasoftsupport.com http://boards.cexx.org/ The folks there will tell you what to remove. A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/ -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Bruce Stokes" wrote in message ... I am using Win 98 SE. I have run SpyBot several times to get rid of the many unwanted programs and yet there is something that I canīt get rid of: it keeps changing my HOME PAGE to "about blank" almost immediately after re-typing in and hitting Apply. How do I find the problem that is causing this? Any help will be gratefully recieved. Bruce Stokes |
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Thanks for the promt reply. I downloaded the Hijack program and ran it like
you said. After I went to two or three of the web sites to relay the results to the forum so I would know which ones to delete. The problem is they only allow 255 characters in the message box and there are many more than that in the results I received from the scan. Is there somewhere else I can send the results to? On clicking on each one of the results and going to INFO, it seems that most should be eliminated. Thanks again for any help on this very persistant problem. Bruce Stokes "Bert Kinney" wrote in message ... Hi Bruce, Here are a couple more removal tools and information links. Ad-Aware make sure to run the update feature before scanning. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html Download Link: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe HijackThis - use with respect and caution!: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.php#hjt SpywareBlaster: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. SpywareBlaster is a non memory resident utility. It works by setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. For more information: The Parasite Fight: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Darnit: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Bruce Stokes" wrote I am using Win 98 SE. I have run SpyBot several times to get rid of the many unwanted programs and yet there is something that I canīt get rid of: it keeps changing my HOME PAGE to "about blank" almost immediately after re-typing in and hitting Apply. How do I find the problem that is causing this? Any help will be gratefully recieved. Bruce Stokes |
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As I replied in this thread, it sounds like you have CWS.AboutBlank:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#aboutblank "Fix" the entries mentioned in that link, if they appear in your Hijack This log, and run CWShredder. Try posting your log to any one of these forums: http://computercops.biz/forums.html http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=30 http://forum.aumha.org/ http://tomcoyote.org/forums/ http://www.lavasoftsupport.com http://boards.cexx.org/ -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Bruce Stokes" wrote in message ... Thanks for the promt reply. I downloaded the Hijack program and ran it like you said. After I went to two or three of the web sites to relay the results to the forum so I would know which ones to delete. The problem is they only allow 255 characters in the message box and there are many more than that in the results I received from the scan. Is there somewhere else I can send the results to? On clicking on each one of the results and going to INFO, it seems that most should be eliminated. Thanks again for any help on this very persistant problem. Bruce Stokes "Bert Kinney" wrote in message ... Hi Bruce, Here are a couple more removal tools and information links. Ad-Aware make sure to run the update feature before scanning. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html Download Link: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe HijackThis - use with respect and caution!: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.php#hjt SpywareBlaster: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. SpywareBlaster is a non memory resident utility. It works by setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. For more information: The Parasite Fight: http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Darnit: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Bruce Stokes" wrote I am using Win 98 SE. I have run SpyBot several times to get rid of the many unwanted programs and yet there is something that I canīt get rid of: it keeps changing my HOME PAGE to "about blank" almost immediately after re-typing in and hitting Apply. How do I find the problem that is causing this? Any help will be gratefully recieved. Bruce Stokes |
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