Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
About Blank Page
Name: usher2001 Date: October 27, 2004 at 13:03:39 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
I'm having problems with the About:Blank page coming up everytime I open Internet Explorer. I can change the home page and it will stay what I put in there until I close out IE. I tried spyware removers and no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: SAtech Date: October 27, 2004 at 13:24:37 Pacific
Reply:
I had the same virus. Never found a program to remove it. Spyware, Adware, McAfee Security Suite all crapped out. Unfortunately, I ended up having to wipe and reload system. Be prepared, because it does get worse; eventually any link you click on will take you to about:blank. Back up now!
0
Response Number 2
Name: Tonto Date: October 28, 2004 at 03:56:13 Pacific
Reply:
You have not mentioned which anti-spyware you have used. Have you tried CWShredder? If you haven't then download it and run it while offline and in SAFE boot mode. If the problem persists then run HijackThis and post a copy of the report in the Security and Virus forum. There they will give you advice as to what you need to delete. Make sure that you inform them of the procedures you have taken to date to try and resolve the problem.
Summary: my about:blank page is changed. when i open IE, in the adress bar it writes about:blank but a search page opens everytime. there is just writing "search for..." and a lot of categories to search abo...
Summary: Guys: I had the this problem - my about:blank page kept getting changed to some wierd "Search for.." page with a lot of links in it. I also kept getting a pop-up offesing spy-ware software. I ran Ad-A...
Summary: The recipe for riding yourself of about:blank search hijacker is as follows. There are two malicious .dll files on you computer. One is visible and can be easily deleted. The other is HIDDEN. The hi...