re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 8:04 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JM Cerda
(2 messages posted)
Dave I responded yesterday as this being the simplest solution of all for about.
blank. However it seems that about.blank has planted a window that searches for a
short to DownloadPlus.exe. Saying yes or no to the command starts about.blank again.
How do I get rid of this search for shortcut window?????
Thank you
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 8:45 am, David Dokmanovich wrote:
>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 hidden .dll regenerates the viewable .dll if
it
>is deleted or changed. The hidden file is the problem.
>
>To rid your self of the hidden .dll, which is the core of the problem, do the following.
>
>Download three free programs and install them.
>
>
>1. Taskinfo
>
>2. Killbox
>
>3. CWSShredder
>
>http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html (trial version works for this)
>
>http://download.broadbandmedic.com/VbStuff/KillBox.zip
>
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>
>
>
>Open Internet Explorer with the about:blank page.
>
>Then open taskinfo program.
>
>Look for “Internet Explorer” on the left side and highlight it.
>
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