I have adaware…spybot.search and destroy as well as Pest Patrol…and zone alarm.
In spite of the above, whenever I go to my main page, which is yahoo.com, about: blank pops up as the address and when I substitute yahoo.com to get my main page, yahoo main page appears.
But as soon as I try to click on anything on the main page, I immediately get a
screen that says DNS error…and in big red letters PAGE NOT FOUND and the subsequent info that the page you requested is not online. This could be for a variety of reasons, including:
you follwed a broken or out-of-date link
you entered the URL for the page incorrectly.
the site no longer exists.
GO BACK
This Page not Found comes wherever on the yahoo page I click…and no matter how many times I make yahoo.com as my start page…about: blank substitutes itself immediately.
I have no pests captured by any of the security items I listed above.
If you can, please help me to get rid of the highjacker about:blank and resolve this problem for me.
Thanks in advance.
I had a similar but not identical problem, which was the product of one of the bastard variants of Cool Web Search. It may be worth your while to go to the Merijn website and download CWShredder.exe – if someone has the site bookmarked and can provide a link, I’d be grateful. This may be the cause of your problem, or it may be a completely different hijacker. But it only takes a minute or so to locate, download, and run it – if you can get to Google or another search engine, look for cwshredder.
Thanks for your support. Downloaded your suggestion and followed directions but to no avail.
When I click on my gold star on my bottom task bar which gives me all my fovorites including straight dope, the offensive red lettered blocker does NOT appear and everything runs smoothly. Could it be a malfunction of yahoo itself? :
It sounds a lot like the dreaded about:blank variant of CoolWebSearch. CWShredder does not fix this (and probably won’t for awhile: Merijn has said his programming skills aren’t up to it).
You need to download and run Hijackthis. Save the log, and then post it at http://forums.spywareinfo.com. Someone will eventually work with you to fix the issue and it will take several iterations.