Posted on 07/29/2004 6:02:28 PM PDT by fiftymegaton
I have recently contracted the internet trojan horse or virus or whatever you call it which automatically changes your homepage to about:blank(some weird search engine). This trojan didn't really bother me until recently(last night) it started automatically coming up when I would go to check my e-mail(both a hotmail and a yahoo account). I can type in my ID and password but then instead of getting my mail page I get the about:blank page and hence I cannot send or receive any e-mails at this time. I have Symantecs anti-Virus and have downloaded Adaware and neither has helped this problem. I run IE 5.5 at the moment and was wondering if downloading the often praised mozilla browser would help with this current problem. Any advice is welcome!
spybot search and destroy.
adaware
anti-trojan
hijack this
find em and use em
Go to Mcafee.com and download STINGER. It will remove it and fix your computer.
i downloaded FIRFOX (mozzila new version EXCELLENT) free,
BOUGHT ZONEALARM PRO paid 40.00
Have not looked back yet!
NET.. DUMp I.E.
Good luck.
It might be a variant of a horrible Russian ad-program called "Coolwebsearch" Go here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Also download and run cwshredder.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Is it Search200? Go to http://www.search200.com/help.html and download the unload program. It will work: I've used it at work. Good luck!
This is a quick bunch.
http://eboston.addr.com/wwwboard/messages/1494.html
The above link is to a question at the Computer Lady.com which maybe of some help.... Also you may asked your question over there as they seem to provide lots of info.....
FireFox has some problems when running websites that have Java coding.
You need all of 'em to get rid of the stuff.
I had the infamous home page-changing malware and I had to post hijackthis logs, run through about 4 trojan/spybot removal programs plus one virus program, and then run cwshredder about a dozen times before it ended up finally being clean.
I have learned my lesson. I run cwshredder every week or so to make sure nothing got back on here. So far, so good.
I also run Norton once a week and spybot, adaware, hijackthis (to examine the logs), SpywareBlaster, SwatIt, and XoftSpy every couple weeks.
I try to run the Housecall online virus scan every couple months.
It is just insane what you have to do these days to keep the computer clean.
well I hear you but so far so good...
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It is an awful little bug. I used the remover 10 times it seemed like and my computer still had not removed it.
Why? I WASN'T IN SAFE MODE.
If you have problems removing stuff in regular mode, reboot in safemode and run cwshredder or some other program again.
It helps a ton...
Yep. And those ones I listed, I tried in that sequence to clean one recently, and spybot was the only one to get rid of the problem.
We initially discussed the "About:Blank" hijack when it first crawled out from under its rock ( http://langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-07-08.htm#4 ), but a lot more info is now available:
Hey Fred: Saw the latest LangaList and then ran into this. Thought you might want to pass it on to your readers: "About:Buster v1.26 [23K] Win2k/XP FREE http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4289.html Is your Internet Explorer hijacked to something similar to res://.dll/index.html#37049? Symptoms include an about:blank home page and popup ads. This one is a bear to remove, but a couple of tools have been released to help remove these, including About:Buster. The download page has instructions on using this tool..."---Michael H. Bell
Hi Fred. With regard to the "about blank" browser hijack, I had 2 friends systems infected with this Trojan and after some searching found this very useful site with information about Cool Web Search (CWS) which it is part of + the CWS shredder program removes all traces completely, even ones that Ad Aware did not pick up. Recommended. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html ---Geoff Wilkinson
I think you would have an interesting read of this page by Eric Howes and Suzi over at Spyware Warrior forums, at which I diagnose HijackThis logs at, under the user name TeMerc. I also have a MSN community, and I always post links to your newsletters. Here is my site:
http://groups.msn.com/TeMercInternetSecuritySite/home.htm ---Tom Mercado
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