About:blank virus - my attemps to kill it

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On WinXp I got a very nasty virus. It sets IE homepage to about:blank
and pop-up ads jumping any minute.
I run Ad-Aware, CWShredder, Spybot - but nothing helped.
I investigated it a little - it looks that some Win service is
infected. Why do I think so? I manualy replace in the Registry all
"about:blank" by my home page, exited the registry, and end opened
again - the "about:blank" was there again.
I don't know how to technicaly to get rid of this pest - I will
reinstall WinXP, but what I will do: I will write to all company that
ads are poping on my screen and tell them that I will NEVER buy from
them and spam the Web that they are using services of virus writers.

Zalek

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