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Same Problem
I have the same problem. I hit internet explorer and the
site that now comes up is about blank.com when it used to be MSN. I have tried changing internet options to show MSN as my home page and even went into tools and changed it there. It always returns as about blank. Someone please help us.l |
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Same Problem
Same problem = Same solution. Did you read that solution? If not I've copied
it below. You've been hijacked, quite possibly by a variant of the CoolWebSearch parasite. Possibly the CWS.Aboutblank variant (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#aboutblank) Download and run CWShredder (http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or 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.. This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware 6.0 from Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also SpyBot Search & Destroy (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. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Russell Smith wrote: I have the same problem. I hit internet explorer and the site that now comes up is about blank.com when it used to be MSN. I have tried changing internet options to show MSN as my home page and even went into tools and changed it there. It always returns as about blank. Someone please help us.l |
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