Hendrix wrote:
I had that happen to me. Some homepage called "about" kept replacing my homepage and would not let me go to certain sites. I have a firewall, norton anti-virus (which I update every few days), and spybot. I could not get the stupid thing off. Every time I would change my homepage back, it would get changed back to this "about" search page. Finally, I got on the internet and found how to solve it. I had to go into the about page, copy the first line of code and paste it at a website that told me what the file was called, then go into windows and rename that file (it won't let you delete it). It was fixed after all of that. That was the only thing that would solve it.Do you have specifics on this?
My son has this problem with About.com defaulting as his home page.
I have a Mac so I couldn't help him.
Hijacking a PC ought to be a crime and I cannot believe some lawyer hasn't sued the advertisers that use these techniques! Yoo Hoo, boys! Over here!
Quid:
On reboot does IE list the home page as "About:blank?
Maybe the About:blank hijacker is now ".com" but its one of the worst. Even if you have AdAware, Spybot, etc. already download the latest program itself (ideally to a clean PC) and install them, update and then run them.
Hijack This is complicated and time-consuming and can be dangerous but it does work - Backhoe's post at #33 should help.
Good luck!