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.

Just out of interest... did you happen to keep a record of thye location of the registry keys the about:blank registered?

Sorry, no I didn't. But it was in a number of locations. Be sure to do a separate search for blank and about

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.

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.