re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 10:39 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kevin
(1 messages posted)
I hate about:blank, I tried everything Cw shredder, spybot, Spywareblaster, but nothing
worked. Finnaly I got Hijackthis and I think it worked (hopefully I did not screw
anything up) any who... thank you everybody who posted on this forum, alot! Oh Nooooooooooo!
It just came back, darn it! Help me please.
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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