re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 1:53 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ken the spyware hater
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem. Ad aware and spybot s&d did not fix it. What helped me was
hijackthis. I found it at http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
You have to be careful when u use it because you could screw up legit programs.
The problem is that Internet explorer has bho's or browser helper objects. On my
pc (2000 pro) some of these were good like spybot, popup blocker, and something to
do with Norton. You have to read what each bho is before you check them.
I guessed and got lucky. I checked the others (I think that there were 2) and my
google search was good to go with no more about:blank. There are all sorts of other
things to check, but I left those alone. You should look at the ones that begin with
bho. Good luck. I thought fer sure I was going to screw something up, but every thing
seems ok.
On Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 12:55 pm, Ron wrote:
>I normally use "MSN" as my home page. Until recently it seems that my home page
has
>been "Hijacked" to use "About Blank" home page. Each time I reset my
>home page to the default setting (msn) I can access it
>only one time. The next time I try to open "msn" it has
>been changed back to "about blank". I have scanned my system with "SpyBot" and have
>made the recommended fixes for parasites, hijackers etc... but to
>no avail... If anyone can help me I would appreciate it.
>Thanks
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