|
|
|
about blank
Showing all messages in thread #1098165579
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
The following are all of the messages in this thread (4 in all), shown in chronological order. Click any message subject to view that message by itself or to view the thread hierarchy.
|
about blank
Monday, October 18, 2004 at 10:59 pm
Posted by joe
(68 messages posted)
I keep on hearing about a virus/worm called or associated with "about blank".I use
a blank home page and have done so for over a year.This shows up as "about blank"
in my task bar when I first open IE.As soon as I go anywhere on the web the task
bar icon changes to that web site.So far so good.I regularly use avg,spybot,ad-aware,spyware
guard and spywareblaster,so I'm fairly certain that I don't have any malicious stuff
on my pc.Ad-aware seems to think that "about blank " is bad and wants to change my
home page.I finally had to tell ad-aware to ignore that item.Is the problem that
a piece of bad s/w misused "about blank" so that programs like Ad-aware issue warning
when they come across it even if it hasn't been infected.? Am I safe to use a blank
home page? Thanks for any thoughts on this.
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
| |
re: about blank
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 12:13 am
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
It's safe to use about blank as a start page. There are several variants of a very
advanced browser hijacker that change start and search entries to about blank. I
doubt you need to worry about it, since you have prevention programs installed.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
|
re: about blank
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 3:06 pm
Posted by joe
(68 messages posted)
Thank you Carol
On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 12:13 am, Carol J wrote:
>
>It's safe to use about blank as a start page. There are several variants of a very
>advanced browser hijacker that change start and search entries to about blank. I
>doubt you need to worry about it, since you have prevention programs installed.
>
>
>
>color="CC00FF">
>Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
|
re: about blank
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 6:57 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
You're welcome. This is the (trojan) hijacker that has several about blank variants.
The tool used to scan for those, is called CWShredder.
CoolWebSearch Chronicles
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
[Reply or follow-up to this message]
| |
Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
|
|
