About:Blank Problem

I have thoroughly gone through every step in "Read Me First Before Asking For Support". None of the scans found anything. Then I examined the Hijack This log line by line, following the steps in the "No Hijack This Log Files Before Reading This Tutorial". I could find nothing that looks like it shouldn't be there. I am using Firefox for my browser....but....the About:Blank window pops up when I am using eBay's Turbo Lister, which I found out loads Internet Explorer as it uses the IE HTML rendering engine. I use this program off-line as much as possible, but it has to connect to the Internet in order to perform certain functions. So far About:Blank has only popped up when I was off-line, but I fear it is only a matter of time until it catches me on-line and then I'll get the full effect.

If anyone can suggest a next step for me to take I would appreciate it as I am out of ideas.

Thanks.

 

If I am offline I expect to get the same blank about:blank window I am now getting. The Turbo Lister program sometimes has to go on-line and my fear is that if the about-blank window pops up during the time I am on-line it will take me somewhere on the web I don't want to go. My friend had this and ultimately the window popped up in the middle of everything he tried to do - even when he was off-line. The windows popped up faster and faster until they were so plentiful that he could not do anything productive on his computer. This is the effect I am hoping to avoid. It ain't pretty.

 

As I said previously, I *did* all the steps in "READ ME FIRST BEFORE ASKING FOR SUPPORT: Basic Spyware, Trojan And Virus Removal" before I posted and yes, the programs I used are the latest versions.

Is it perfectly normal for an empty IE Explorer window entitled About:Blank to suddenly pop up when you're off line and working in another program?? I've used IE and Turbo Lister for a number of years this has never happened to me until recently.

My friend also had this happen even immediately after a reboot. When he connected to the Internet the window became populated with a list of links. Then another "about:blank" window popped up and also became populated and another and another. When we rebooted, was off the Internet and not using IE, blank about:blank windows popped up one after another so often that they got in the way of any program he was trying to use. I am trying to prevent this second stage from happening on my computer by finding out where the "about:blank" window is coming from and killing it for good.

So what is it about my problem you don't understand?

 

Sounds like you have the About:Blank nasty. Look for tools on this site to remove it.

 

If you mean is IE set to go to a blank page upon opening.....no, it goes to my msn. Also, I have a dial-up connection, so I don't connect unless I actually need to be on the internet. The IE window with about:blank in the address bar has always popped up when I was not connected. I think if I had been online there would have been the completed search page. My Hijack This log is attached.

 

I guess that explains why I couldn't find anything in the log that looked like it shouldn't be there. Thanks for your time. I still can't help wondering why that window keeps popping up - maybe it's a problem with Turbo Lister.

Thanks again.