Re: Home Page HiJacked!

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From: Don Varnau (don_04[at]varnau[dot]org)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:51:31 -0500

Steve,
That's a variant of coolwebsearch
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#aboutblank

CWShredder from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html should
remove it.

You should probably follow up with Ad-aware and/or Spybot. You may have
other malware installed.
See: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm for more information,
including security tips.

Don 

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"Steve Greer"  wrote in message
news:61fc01c42e3e$71412000$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> When I open IE6.0, my home page is always set
> to "about:blank."
>
> The "about:blank" page is some gargage search page that's
> replaced my normal blank htm.
>
> This occurs off line as well as on line, so the junk file
> is somewhere on my machine. I've cleared every temporary
> internet file and any questionable file I can find, but no
> luck getting rid of the thing.
>
> I've reset my "homepage" to it's desired location many
> times, and reset IE to default vaules, but my home page is
> always this HiJacked "about:blank" when I re-open IE6.0.
>
> I have extensive McAfee and other scurb and clean
> software. Nothing has found the culprit.
>
> Maybe if I knew more about where the normal 'about:blank"
> htm is held, and how to restore same, I'd have some luck.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Steve

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