about:blank hijack
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| artzelda |
 Jun 10 2004, 05:32 PM
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 The MAN  Group: Private Member Posts: 455 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 26  |
Well a friend of mine got his IE hijacked by about:blank resulting in the launching of rapid fire popups that the popup stoppers could not prevent. Went to the merjn site to find out about it and it is a "nasty malware". Believe me it is nasty. All the solutions there did not work because this was a new variant of this malware. I used BPS spyware to remove some of the shit this put on his system but it kept coming back.
Eventually I had to go into the registry and do a search for "about" and "blank". If both are not eliminated the malware keeps coming back. The problem there is a lot of stuff in the registry called 'about' and 'blank' that are asociated with other programs. So the deletion was time consuming and tedious but it worked. |
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| mcelb1200 |
Jun 11 2004, 03:51 AM
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 nFm [ Level 1 ] Group: Full Member Posts: 240 Joined: 29-April 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 94 |
Just out of interest... did you happen to keep a record of thye location of the registry keys the about:blank registered?
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| artzelda |
Jun 11 2004, 03:43 PM
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The MAN Group: Private Member Posts: 455 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 26 |
Sorry, no I didn't. But it was in a number of locations. Be sure to do a separate search for blank and about
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| Taggard |
Jun 23 2004, 08:38 PM
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nFm [ stuck around ] Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 14-June 04 Member No.: 117 |
Does anyone have any updated info on the about:blank hijacker. It seems to not be fully removed by spybot or adaware and I am wondering if there is a quick fix for it. I have come across it a number of times in the past week.
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| artzelda |
Jun 24 2004, 08:10 PM
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The MAN Group: Private Member Posts: 455 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 26 |
What do you call info dated 6-10 and 6-11. I don't think there is newer info than this. If you find it let me know.
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