Re: Lost the ability to default to a specified Home Page

From: Mike Burgess (winhelp2002_at_spamthis.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:59:38 -0400

Estella,
> is replaced with 'about:blank'"
This is usually Coolwebsearch trojan related ......

How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

Note: this type hijack indicates an unpatched machine, that is lacking
in "Defense". Please visit Windows Update to avoid these exploits.

Note: be *sure* to follow-up with HijackThis
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"Estella Yeung" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:16f6201c420c5$ed56c770$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> It started a couple weeks ago that my regular Home Page
> is replaced with 'about:blank' whenever I open the
> Internet Explorer.
>
> Regardless what I do to reset the default Home Page, the
> system would only have my choice of default for a little
> while and then revert back to about:blank, i.e., a blank
> page when I open the Internet Explorer.
>
> Do you know what is going on?