[pchelpers] Re: bad malware or whatever

Hi Louis,

You have an "About:Blank hijacker".

Check out these pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=about%3Ablank+hijacker

The easy way out is to use System Restore, and go back about 2 days
before you started having the problem, assuming that it hasn't killed
System Restore.

System Restore often does not work in normal mode; you should restart
into safe mode to use it. You start up in Safe Mode, restart the
computer, then start tapping the F5 key as soon as the BIOS screen
goes blank. If Windows starts up without giving you a menu with Safe
Mode as an option, you didn't start tapping soon enough. After you get
into Windows in Safe Mode, go to Start, Programs, Accessories, System
Utilities, and System Restore is there.

I definitely would not pay $440 for a program to fix it; I could buy a
new (cheap) computer for that money.

--Scott.

Thursday, August 28, 2008, 7:06:56 PM, you wrote:

LMH> I can hardly go to any links without being hijacked to a page named "about
LMH> blank".
LMH> It takes me to a site at:
LMH> http://checksystem-online.com/id/4912933/4/1.
LMH> At that site, it wont let me cancle or X out. I can let the scan start, go
LMH> to windows
LMH> task master and delete the run, but the site I wanted to go to is lost. All
LMH> it has is
LMH> as a button is cancel, X and OK.  They don't function as you would think.

LMH> After a search of the internet on a different computer [using google on my
LMH> infected computer  triggers me into the problem cited above] I found some
LMH> software called XoftSpySE for  439.90 which claims to  solve that problem. 
I
LMH> have ran it several times as well as RegCure from the same company as well
LMH> as the free AVI scan and ad-aware6..
LMH> Nothing in error is found in those scans as of now as they indicated all 
the
LMH> bad stuff was cleared, but I still have the problem.

LMH> I have emailed the techs at paretologic.com, the company for XoftSpySE and 
I
LMH> am
LMH> awaiting their reply.

LMH> Any suggestions would be appreciated as I can hardly use anything but email
LMH> on this
LMH> XP computer.

LMH> Thanks, 






-- 
Scott.



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