about:blank hijacked my homepage - how do I fix it?

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there is a realy quick and easy way to romove about:Blank and other hyjakers produced by cool web searchits free over the net it is called
cw shredder youl find it on this website
www.intermute.com
this hijacker ile tell you how easy it is

i am 15 and i romoved it in seconds all you do is download fromwww.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
thene you close all progarams with alt ctrl delete
Acecpt explorer and run the progrm i garentey your problem will be gone

somtimes about blank trys to corupt progrms but CW
shredder opens in radom location so dont wory i hope this soleve all your problems

About:Blank

Just wanted to say after spending hours searching for a solution (thankfully not spending £££) mahesh's post to fix the About:Blank works, it takes about 5mins to sort thank you very much, we are not worthy !!!cheers Mahesh.

Michael

I'm not having any luck with this about:blank hijacker. I've tried many different things, all failing. In regards to the instructions above from Mahesh, everytime I rename the dll file in mycomputer, the underlying program names it back to the original seconds later, creating a copy. Secondly, when I try to locate and delete the "hidden" file with Reglite.exe, nothing comes up with "AppInit_DLLs" under HKEY_LOCAL.... What am I not doing? I'm the administrator, I've set the file options to read hidden files. Please help, this thing is making me crazy.

Do you want all of these parasitic problems inherent amongst windows os to go away?get a mac!Gates has the brass ring because he handed over the anonymity that comes with personal freedom to the government and big buisness(the two that have done the most damage to our country)through the back doors in windows os.It seems anyone but myself (the owner)can do whatever they like with the software governing MY computer.My revenge?dump the third rate turd that is windows and get a real O.S..Are there entire websites devoted to single problems with Mac?Are there a wealth of software engineers fumbling to try to keep up with supposed malicious code writers affecting Macs?I liken windows (as well as most of the software engineers involved in windows) to an exterminator who infects your home with bugs then offers to get rid of them at a price.Do yourself a favor,ask yourself :if it were a car instead of a computer who would put up with such an obviously flawed product?

There is a malware removal program called Adware Away, which can completely handle this issue
http://www.AdwareAway.com/aboutblank.htm

Am I just dumb, I do not see the string that starts with res:// in my view/source. I have tried all different types of spyware removal tools, still doesnt work. Will someone tell me exactly where i will find the res://?

Thanks Mahesh ! Your solution worked.

Can someone tell me in a little more detail just how to use mahesh's solution ? My problem is at the beginning of his instructions. Where should I be (on what webpage)when I seach for res:// ? Also I'm wondering if the .dll file I will find by going to www.simplelogic.com/Developer/URLDecode.asp is the infamous "hidden file" ? Any help will be appreciated ! I have Windows Me.

There is a dll file in C:\Windows\System32 that causes the repeating About:Blank virus. To identify the culprit, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the System32 subdirectory and sort the files by date. The culprit will most likely be the latest file date and that date should probably be about the time your problem started. The DLL file name will be four or five random alphabet characters. You need to delete that file but you usually cannot do it from within Windows. Restart your computer and bring it up in DOS. Navigate to the System32 subdirectory and delete the dll file found earlier. It also helps to use RegEdit and search for the same named entries and delete them in the registry (this is not absolutely necessary; just cleanup).

about:blank problem? try this.......
After surfing and downloading many tools from the net and when they haven't worked, I downloaded Anti-Virus & Spyware from http://www.anti-viruses.net or http://www.your-soft.com and it simply worked. After running it, just write your desired homepage at Start Page after clicking IE Doctor at the left side bottom, click Apply and it's done. The second good thing about it is that it's free. After that I downloaded Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta1) and it is working nicely to stop about:blank from hijacking my browser again. Although, it may not be a permanent solution but it can give a sigh of relief for the time being.
Thanks!
Shailendra

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