re: Cannot remove "ABOUT BLANK" homepage
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Higham
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem in Windows 98SE and tested Ken's suggestion to use Hijack
This to solve the issue. Thankfully it worked. I download 'Hijack This' free from
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html.
When run I received a log of internet associated files. I deleted those ending '=
about:blank', plus BHO and Filters ending 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BPMOPA.DLL'. No more
'About:blank'. Thanks Ken
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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