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Help! My computer home page is continuously hijacked by a
trojan that replaces it with "About Blank." I have tried to remove it using Norton Anti-Virus technology to no avail. Can someone please help this maiden in distress? |
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Most likely spyware causing the problem. Go to this site:
http://www.safer-networking.org And download and run Spybot search and destroy. Dan -----Original Message----- Help! My computer home page is continuously hijacked by a trojan that replaces it with "About Blank." I have tried to remove it using Norton Anti-Virus technology to no avail. Can someone please help this maiden in distress? . |
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You've been hijacked, quite possibly by a variant of the CoolWebSearch
parasite. Probably by 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 many parasites getting a grip on your PC. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Marie wrote: Help! My computer home page is continuously hijacked by a trojan that replaces it with "About Blank." I have tried to remove it using Norton Anti-Virus technology to no avail. Can someone please help this maiden in distress? |
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