About:Blank

[NewbieContractor]

dam it.. i have the About:blank problem.. any help chaps??!!

Also, Browser has been hi-jacked to http://www.safetyuptodate.net/

[Fleetwood]

I had that once, and the OS had to be re-installed. It's called Cool Search or something like that. My mistake was to run Spybot/AD-Aware with IE explorer open. Shut everything, run Spybot, and pray. Also get an anti-virus.

[Cowboy Bob]

http://www.getfirefox.com

[cojak]

Firefox on it's own ain't that great - something in clamav hijacked it to bloomberg.com just after installing mepis - I had to add a shedload of blockers in my /etc/hosts

You can find more here http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

[TheMonkey]

Just stop visiting those dodgy web sites.

[interested]

I had that once, and the OS had to be re-installed. It's called Cool Search or something like that. My mistake was to run Spybot/AD-Aware with IE explorer open. Shut everything, run Spybot, and pray. Also get an anti-virus.

Friend of mine had that. I had to download Firefox on my laptop, copy it to his, install it, then use Firefox to download the MS Anti-Spyware software (now called Defender I think), then run that. IE was completely screwed and unusable during this whole process but the above steps cured it eventually.

[Toad]

Google says ...

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=77296

[NewbieContractor]

Google says ...

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=77296

Thanks All - fixed it now!

Downloaded Hi-Jack this, ran in Safemode, found the tmp file - hp0003.tmp or something like that, removed with smitrem.. all good now!

Only took a few minutes!

[wc2]

hijackthis - nice util