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Old August 28th 04, 01:43 PM
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my homepage keeps changing. i am a yahoo user, but my home
page keeps changing every time i use my browser to
(blank).....how do i get this thing to quit changing my
home page settings??
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Old August 28th 04, 01:54 PM
Mike M
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You've been hijacked. There are two or more home page hijackers
(parasites) that use the about:blank mechanism.

One of these parasites is a variant of the CoolWebSearch parasite. For
details of the CWS.Aboutblank variant see
(http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#aboutblank).
Unfortunately there is a more cent variation of this hijacker which cannot
be removed by CWShredder (see below) and if this is the case your only
resort will be to follow the advice in the last paragraph.

Download and run CWShredder
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip which is the best
way of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details
of which can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html and also
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp..

There is also another newer variant aboutblank parasite which is
particularly resistant to removal.

For details of this second variant and possible help see recent posts by
Mow Green in various threads at http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
such as that initiated by JENNY entitled "Blank page is BACK!
(http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=6437). You will need to download
for later use the tool about:Buster from either
http://www.atribune.org/downloads/AboutBuster.zip or
http://tools.zerosrealm.com/AboutBuster.zip

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware
SE Personal edition from Lavasoft
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also SpyBot Search &
Destroy 1.3 (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them to check your
system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are only as
good as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a program
called BHODemon (http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm) that
checks for unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help
prevent some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Finally if you still continue to experience problems download a copy of
HijackThis from (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html).
Create a folder called HJT on C: (not on your desktop nor in your temp
folder) and copy the file you downloaded to that folder. Close as many
applications as you can including all instances of Internet Explorer.
Enable Explorer to see all files and folders (Tools | Folder Options |
View and check "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected
operating system files") and then run hijackthis.exe and post back the log
to either the HijackThis Forum at http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or
alternatively http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30 and hopefully this
will enable someone to identify the cause of your problem.

See also: Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search
Engines http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm and also Browser
Hijacking http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




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my homepage keeps changing. i am a yahoo user, but my home
page keeps changing every time i use my browser to
(blank).....how do i get this thing to quit changing my
home page settings??


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Old August 28th 04, 11:39 PM
Lawrence Abrams
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Create a directory on your hardrive to save HijackThis.exe. A directory
like c:\hijackthis. If you do not do this, you will not be able to use the
backup/restore features.

Download HijackThis from:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

or he

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/file...hijackthis.zip

Save this file into the directory you made previously and then run the
program named hijackthis.exe. When the program opens click on the Config
button, then click on the Misc Tools button, and click on the Check for
update online button. When it completes checking/applying updates press the
back button.

Now click on the Scan button and when it is finished click on the Save Log
button. A Notepad window will open with the contents of this log. Click on
Edit then click on Select all. Then click on Edit and then Click on Copy.

Create a reply to this post here or register an account and post a message
in the HijackThis Logs forums at http://www.bleepingcomputer.com and right
click in message area and select paste to paste the log into the post.

Someone will reply to you after reading this post. DO NOT fix any entries
unless you understand what you are doing.

To see a tutorial with screenshots on using HijackThis you can click on the
link below:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...howtutorial=42

--
Lawrence Abrams
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source for Original Content, Tutorials, and Support for the beginning
computer user.

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