Re: about:blank and hijacked homepage: SOLUTION
From: Vile (vile5_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/11/04
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Date: 11 Jun 2004 05:04:38 -0700
Now I think its a temp fix. It won't hold for long. This is pissing
me off! Did you find anything else out about this virus/trojan/bug?
"Merwin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<16f8101c44869$2458ecb0$a001280a@phx.gbl>...
> Dear Bryan and all those who are affected by about:
> blank / hijacked home page and such other cool websearch
> variants may down load and run CWShredder. The link is
> given below
>
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
>
> The above is very effective. You may get back your
> homepage. But there is a possibility, your address bar may
> still remain under hijack. I am yet to get an update to
> get back the address bar.
>
> Good luck
>
> Merwin
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello,
> >
> >SYMPTOMS:
> >The past week I've been trying to restore my computer to
> the orginal Windows 98 2nd edition default browsing
> capabilties (with IE 6.0). However, the homepage has been
> hijacked by a search page that has no identification. It
> starts by "Search for..." and then loads their search
> page. The page that is loaded somewhere on the computer
> is "about:blank". Also, ShopNav.spyware takes over my
> search engine functions.
> >
> >Internet Highspeed works at 50% as it continually
> stalls....I gather to send my information to a server...
> >
> >RECOVERY ATTEMPTS:
> >Also, I've followed advice from Symantec website to
> remove the ShopNav.spyware/adware, but this still also
> affects domain searches and the search engine functions,
> ShopNav stills loads by itself even though i've followed
> steps to clear the search function.
> >
> >For the homepage hijacking, I have also went into the
> registry to manually edit registries however, as soon as
> close and restrart the IE6 browser, all registry values
> get reset back to about: blank.
> >
> >Does any one know how to correct this? or what
> spyware.adware is associated with a homepage that Starts
> with "Search for..." at the top? and is called about:
> blank. How d=to get rid of this and restore my default
> homepage and hijiacked search funstions.
> >
> >Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Bryan
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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