re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 3:19 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim
(3 messages posted)
Nothing has worked. I have SpyBlaster, SpyGuard, Adaware, Norton Antivirus, HijackThis,
CWShredder, and the problem is still there. Now SpyGuard tells me that something
is trying to change my home page...but I don't know how to get rid of it.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Jim
On Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 1:53 am, ken the spyware hater wrote:
>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.
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