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Hijacked ? About:Blank?-HJT file
Name: tccac Date: January 14, 2005 at 00:29:28 Pacific OS: WinXP serpak2 CPU/Ram: pent4, 512
Comment:
I have been fighting my browser (IE) for two days now, I'm glad I've found you, hope you can help, I'm about ready to throw this whole thing out the window. My browser is holding me hostage. I get redirected to this C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\search.html page which is blank, and I hit home page and I get the now infamous about:Blank. I have tried spybot, ad-aware, Norton's all updated, and now Hijackthis. After fighting with this for a while I thought I would just restore to an earlier day, It won't let me - on reboot it says can not restore to this date. I've tried several dates, and it won't let me go back to December, and then there's this Hijacked by New.Net stuff. I don't know if all this is connected, I suspect it is. Below is My Hijackthis file. Would appreciate any help I can get. If anymore info is needed please let me know. Thank you tccac ************
Name: ranchhand Date: January 14, 2005 at 05:54:04 Pacific
Reply:
About:blank is a common hijack of Cool Web Search; there are different varieties, but my suggestion is to run Cool Web Shredder -the free download. It used to be for free but some outfit bought and is selling it as 'improved' so I can't say how good it works because I have never used it.
Link to free:http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html Download the free version of CWS and run it.
If that doesn't work, go here and post your HT log. You will need help with this one.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.
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Response Number 3
Name: michael2 Date: January 14, 2005 at 07:51:15 Pacific
Summary: Well, it worked for a while. Think it was cleaning the Windows/Temp folder that did it. I did that before, right at the start of the hijack, but it turns out some suspicious stuff re-appeared there in...
Summary: >>>>>>>Original Message Name: Dan (by tartandjm) Date: July 22, 2004 at 14:30:48 Pacific Subject: backdoor.trojan logoh.dll? Help? "Running XP, it started with the about:blank hijack. ... it morphed ...
Summary: Keep eliminating, getting, eliminating, getting...etc this About:blank page. The actual homepage is called "Search For..." and I use AboutBuster and Updated ver. of CWShredder. Run these both and it s...
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