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I have been getting the about:blank hijacker here lately. I have ran ad-aware, norton, cwsshredder, adware away etc... I just ran hijack this and here is my log Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 6:14:14 PM, on 6/25/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 …

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I've been having a problem where my internet connection has effectively died - this happened once before and between AdAware and Spybot, I was able to fix it. This seems to be slightly different. Naturally the first things I did when this started occurring were to run VirusScan, AdAware and …

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Hi all, i'm of course here to seek help to fix the infamous about:blank (a.k.a :evil: ) hijacker. I tried to ignore it for a while, but i want to see my beautiful home page again (shameless plug: [URL=http://united.forerunners.org]H2:United[/URL] ). Anyways, if you can help me solve this, i would …

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I have the about blank and I delete the temp\sp.html and the about blank references within the hijackThis program. I also deleted the BHO CKNP.dll - have run spybot, adware and CWshredder. I also notice a desktop.ini file that seems to show up. I have delted that and after restart …

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Hi. I have this same problem (about:blank page with Search for...) A copy of the HijackThis log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 2:25:46 PM, on 6/20/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe c:\Program …

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Hi! I'm new to the forum...I'm trying to help my grandmother out by fixing her computer. She has her homepage set to her ISP's homepage, but she has it set so that it shows all her links to her email and such. You can see them for the time that …

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Whenever I start Wordpad, IE, or Outlook the windows installer window comes up. When I am using IE I get many popups, mostly from "only the best". I have had a popup blocker installed but it quit working. Additionally, my default web page will not stay set. Each time I …

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Hi, I have read a number of posts here and have tried many different things to get rid of this problem. It always comes back an hour or two later. I have AdAdware, CWShredder, and reglite. I ran a HijackThis Log and have posted it here, any advice on which …

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ok, before you guys bitch at me about reading that other topic and not having other people do the work for me, i did but i'm not computer smart at all and none of it made sense to me. now, i was told you guys can help me out, so …

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[QUOTE=Dreg_02]After posting that last one, I tried that program that was posted by happyguy. It seemed to work, the about blank crud isnt coming back for now. However I am remaining skeptical about it. It actually found alot more crud than i thought it would. I guess ad-aware doesn't really …

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my computer is running very slow and locks up frequently. Here is my hijack this file, was wondering if there was anything i could do to help this problem. thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 1:44:48 AM, on 6/21/2004 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 …

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Can anyone give me some step-by step advice to get rid of this? All the fixes give in the forum seem very specific to each case so if someone could run through the solution with me that would be great! Here's my log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at …

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I have been noticing that my computer is very slow. My browsers take a long time to open up about 5 minutes at times. When looking at my task manager, I saw that the system idle process was at 84%. Ive ran spybot, defragged, ran norton. I dont know what …

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Hi All: My PC has been hijacked by the 'about:blank' bug. I have downloaded the "About:Buster" application from the following link: [url]http://tools.zerosrealm.com/dllfix.exe[/url] (as suggested in previous thread here), and I will try to follow the instructions suggested on that site, but I am not sure which DLLs are problematic on …

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I have found this site very usefull over that past 6-7 months, esp when fixing peoples computers remotely with real VNC, so I thougth I would share the wealth :) . [url]http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php[/url] <-- for start up files [url]http://www.sysinfo.org/bholist.php[/url] <-- for BHO and CLSID [url]http://www.sysinfo.org/[/url] I would suggest grabbing the zip …

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HJT Log: ogfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 4:23:25 PM, on 06/27/2004 Platform: Windows 98 Gold (Win9x 4.10.1998) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\LOADQM.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\GRISOFT\AVG6\AVGCC32.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\REAL\UPDATE_OB\REALSCHED.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSN MESSENGER\MSNMSGR.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDHELP.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE D:\AJE HELP\HJT\HIJACKTHIS.EXE R1 …

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Hi could somebody please help me with this error. I have loaded spysweeper onto my PC but whenever I have it on my Taskbar I get this error message Invalid BackWeb application id "448364". Please help as I don't have a clue.... Thanks for your time Toenails

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I installed something that allowed the bridge.dll and a number of spyware related items to return to my laptop. I used AdAware and Spybot which seemed to remove the bridge.dll and other spyware items. After I did this, I ran HijackThis and came across a wierd process (see bold item …

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:o my browser has been hijacked by prosearching.com, which is set reset as my home page after i reboot every time. can anyone still help? a couple of weeks back my machine was hijacked by something called sexcam (safeguardprotect)...i was able to get rid of that, and all adware on …

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My computer is running slow and my virus scan says that it is infected with the TROJ_BRISS.H and the virus is in C:\WINDOWS\system 32\bridge.dll and also in C:\System Volume Information\_restore{9DA4C72C-22E3-449C-8316-661C65035F08}RP25\A0004509.dll. How can i get rid of these viruses. Help please.. Thank you.

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:o i have windows xp pro and my browser is being hijacked my this stupid wohen website. i have run AD-AWARE and SPY BOT SEARCH AND DESTROY 1.3 and CW SHREDDER, all of the latest versions. but after all of that im still getting the same problem. here is my …

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Please can somebody help me with this problem I am very new at this sort of thing, everytime I log onto the Net my Home Page is different. A friend told me to look on the Net for Help, and here I am. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at …

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im using WINDOWS XP PRO SP1...i've already used SPY BOT SEARCH AND DESTROY 1.3, AD-AWARE, and CW SHREDDER and my browser keeps doing pop ups and keeps getting hijacked..can someone help me please?? Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 5:24:22 PM, on 6/26/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) …

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Whenever i start windows, i get an error message that says about a missing module in bridge.dll. I know this is a spyware problem, and i have downloaded a program called Hijackthis. I have scanned my hard drive and saved it to a log file. All i need is an …

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First of all, thanks for all of the tips on removing this problem from my computer. I read a bunch of threads and at the moment it seems that it's fixed. I've rebooted three times with no more about:blank, so hopefully it's gone. Anyway, I haven't seen mention in a …

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please help!! i am posting hijack this log. please tell me wht to delete. i deleted some last night on my own but it did not work...help!! Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 7:08:12 PM, on 6/25/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) …

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Hi, There is some sort of spyware on my computer that seems to change my browser homepage to http://<none>, but it is actually a search engine. Also about the same time this problem started, i began recieving pop-up ads telling me i had spyware. So far to try solve this …

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ok i have this stupid coolwebsearch on my computer and i have the reinstaller as well becuase i always do ad-aware and hijakcthis and this is what i get Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 12:57:06 PM, on 6/25/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 …

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Hello, I've been reading many of the threads to rid my computer of about:blank, in an effort to save you pro's some time, but there's still something in my system. I've run adware, cwshredder, spybot and even loaded spyguard, which has helped to keep about:blank from changing my homepage. Spyguard …

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Well this is my first time in the forums So hello to everybody. Now onto my problem: My Homepage is set to about:Blank( a search for... site) and everytime i change it back to may normal homepage it changes back to that about:Blank. Ran ad-aware, spy-bot, AVG not seems capable …

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