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Although difficult to eradicate, removing the about:blank hijacker on your home page is possible.
about:blank hijacked my homepage - how do I fix it?
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This one cropped up recently, and is generating a lot of activity. Apparently it's quite difficult to eradicate.
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This article: Removing about:blank Homepage Hijacker seems about the most comprehensive set of manual steps. I'm hopeful that the spyware scanners will soon catch up and automate this malware's removal. Check the search results below for ongoing activity also.
Article C2100 - July 7, 2004
Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he
was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed.
After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers
to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.
I also toiled with this one for a couple of days. I was advised to try adaware-away, however I was reluctant as I thought I had read mixed reports on a couple of forum's. After trying everything I could that I could find on removing about:blank I finally lost my browser capability completely (my fault or about:blanks - who knows?). Anyway a trip to the parents to download Firefox from their computer. A quick install on my own PC (know sounding like a 1200cc harley revving) and I downloaded Adaware-Away. The first sweep found About:Blank 5 and cleaned it. I re-booted and ran it again and this time I came back clean.
I then checked my homepage and google had remained- so far, so good. I ran Hijack-this and removed anything with about:blank associated with it. A couple of clean's later with Ad-aware 6 and SpyBot and my machine is purring like a pussy cat and no more pop-ups saying I've won £100 worth of Argos vouchers.
If only I'd tried Adawre-Away at first.
Posted by: Warren at October 14, 2005 9:10 AMTry program from WWW.SUPERANTISPYWARE.COM They have a free antispyware for personal/home use which worked a treat for me. Tried many others but they didn't work. Got rid of about:blank and many others without me having to delve into the registry.
Posted by: Sean at May 2, 2006 4:42 AMFootnote after using superantispyware reset your home page before going online
Posted by: Sean at May 2, 2006 7:15 AMTrend Micro Anti-Spyware is the best I have used so far...It has a build in CWShredder (Cool websearch trojans) and it completely cleans out your system.
Posted by: Cush at July 21, 2006 1:02 AMIf I purchase an anti spyware program will it rid my computer of spyware already invading it?
Posted by: Terry at July 30, 2007 6:19 PM