Re: Start Page Taken over / S&D not helping

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From: Don Varnau (don_04[at]varnau[dot]org)
Date: 05/02/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 23:04:28 -0500

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 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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"ahmed" <sultorn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2b64f094.0405011825.50fd9460@posting.google.com...
> My IE start page is set to "about:blank" - however, when I hope up
> explorer, a search page shows up, the address shown is STILL
> about:blank, but it's not blank by any means.
>
> base href="res://%43%3a%5c%57%49%4e%58%50%5c%6d%2e%64%6c%6c/ is at the
> top of the source code.  It shows up as a browser page in S&D and in
> the registry, I've removed it/replaced it with about:blank or
> http://news.google.com for instance, but it keeps coming back.
> Everytime I press the home button in explorer, or simply restart it,
> there it is again.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> ahmed
> sultorn@Yahoo.com
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