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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 |
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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 om... 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 |
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(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) |
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