Re: IE blank screen trouble....

From: Malvern (tthisis_at_fake)
Date: 05/04/04


Date: 4 May 2004 20:15:40 GMT


"pes" <p.e.smith@att.net> wrote in message
news:4ttlc.27424$Xj6.462649@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> For about a month I have a screen that shows up when I load IE (Internet
> Explorer) It is a search page with hundreds of listing on it to search the
> web. I cannot replace it with the blank page option under the tools
options.
> I just stays there. The registry shows several files listed as About_Blank
> under the numbers 001,002,003 etc. The one that shows up has a [1] after
the
> words About_Blank [1].........any ideas as to get my IE program to load
with
> just a blank page.
>
> Thanks...pes
>
>
>From a post I saved... These may cure the trouble.

Malv

Hi

Try all of the following programs to see if there is any spyware on your
system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

--
Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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