re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Sunday, May 9, 2004 at 9:57 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robert Davis
(1 messages posted)
Go to download.com and download ad-ware 6.0181 and save it to a desktop folder.
After you do this install it and run the search. It will remove the about bland
home page along with any other hidden ads that spotbot misses. You should run spot
bot and ad-ware after each time you are on the net. Good luck as I had a lot of
problems with this page.
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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