RE: Internet Explorer has been hijacked by "About:Blank"
From: billie (billie_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/11/04
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:19:01 -0700
rocketmann007, I am going to try this, for I have been infected with about
blank, in the past few days. I have earthlink total access, which has pop
up blocker on it, but after I started getting about blank, My pop up blocker
has disappeared. I have spent several hours with earthlink by email, chat,
phone trying to get my pop up blocker back. Nothing worked. I am able to get
onto my home page by keep changing back to my default page in internet
options. Now I can not do my computer task any longer, like scan files,
defrageting. Is this because of about blank do you think. I can across this
site by chance, I was trying to find info. about ...about:blank since
earthlink was no help and virus scan showed no virus. Has anyone else lost
their popup blocker program due to this. also does any one know how I got it,
the only thing I can think of is my son downloaded asolute poker from the
internet and play pocker on the internet. I want to uninstall it, even with
his objections, for he does not feel this causes the problem. Thank for any
help to my questions. Billie Ann
"rocketmann007" wrote:
> I tried all the above to remove this culprit but nothing worked. I've used
> adaware, spybot, pestpatrol..they did not prevent this culprit from
> reinstalling upon rebooting. I also searched for about:blank in my registry
> and deleted all references to it. I also searched for coolwebsearch in my
> registry and deleted what I found. Upon reboot, all the previously mentioned
> hijackers returned to the registry. I also went into the advanced properties
> of my internet explorer and changed the setting to disable 3rd party browser
> plug-ins. That didn't help. I also went into my security settings and under
> the restricted sites list, I added coolwebsearch.com and cool-web-search.com
> and then searched the registry again and found everything again so I deleted
> everything pertaining to this culprit again and then restarted and everything
> returned as usual.
>
> I also ran norton's 2004 antivirus and upon updating my virus definitions
> and turning off system restore, I found that norton did not find anything
> too.
>
> BUT....I then decided to run a program from McAfee called Stinger to see if
> it would find anything and it found a virus called w32.backdoor.cfb and it
> was removed. Norton did not find this virus but McAfee did. I rebooted
> again and searched the registry and found nothing..no traces of the culprit.
>
> You can find the Stinger from McAfee here:
>
> http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp
>
>
>
>
> "a1_andy" wrote:
>
> > I'm waiting on microsoft to get back to me on this. I know how to fix it and
> > i know how to prevent it for the future. hope fully they respond soon. It
> > took me 5 comps with all difernt microsoft os's and a week's worth of spare
> > time to figger it out. but i cracked its code! and its the toughest i've ever
> > seen to date and not easly removed due to its "random" filename generator
> > but it is removable.
> > Its a cross betwean a virus/spyware/adware/hijacking
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