re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 1:03 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mike
(7 messages posted)
Yeah, we know what it is.
Please, save us all the canned responses and post something useful. This method does
not work, and I'm sure you're trying to sell something.
I hope you, and the people who wrote this thing, can sleep at night knowing that
you've wasted valuable time from our lives that a) we'll never get back, and b) we
could have used to contribute something useful to society.
have a nice day
On Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 11:40 am, Jane Akins wrote:
>About:Blank is a trojan that highjacks your search and home pages. You can fix it
>by using the registry editor. Make sure you back up your registry before making
any
>changes. Run regedit.exe, select File, export then give it a name such as "My Registry"
>and save to your desktop. Next, select Edit, Find and type in "About:Blank" and
click
>next. Each time it finds this in your registry, select modify and enter the web
page
>you want to use such as: http://www.google.com for your search page and http://www.microsoft.com
>for your Start Page. If you want to make sure that you don't get any of this spyware
>in the future, use TrendMicro's PC-Cillin Internet Security to protect your computer.
>You can find it at www.trendmicro.com. They also allow you to do a free spyware
and
>virus scan of your system using "House Call". Hope this helps you.
>
>
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