HijackThis=Hijacker

Friend who has downloaded HijackThis from your link has discovered that default start page in configuration of this program is aboutblank. Do you think this a tad of a problem?

 

That means it's setting your start page to nothing.

 

Hallo All,
Please note; I am not hijacking this thread, I am replying!
Dear forum follower,
I did not say "hijack this=hijacker"; I asked why hijack this would use "about:blank" to cure hijacked browsers. Chaslang (band breaks out "in hail to the chief")explained the difference. My home page has not been hijacked, I stay away from "dodgy" sites;
"HELP!!!!!!!!!" I think I'm becoming a Geek.

God Bless all at MG,
Best regards

Sammo

 

because HiJackThis doesn't know what you want your home page to be, it makes it the default blank page. You must then reset it to what you wish.

 

i am the friend with about blank hijacker. after a number of attempts i finally got registered. thanks to forum follower for posting my problem. i have followed the instructions for killing about blank as posted here. being poor i do not have the plug ins for ad aware but i am using:
mcafee firewall and virus scan
bazooka
cwshredder kill2me
aolspyware
aboutbuster
spyware blaster
spybot search and destroy
winpatrol
ad aware 6
no adware
hijack this
i also have the windows firewall.
i have earthlink and aol service, in internet options i have earthlink as my start page.
after running hijack this about blank is listed in configuration as my start page.
i have noticed that the reconnect sevice from earthlink has a reset password that i cannot change.
after running the sequence for cleaning posted here winpatrol always says that it has detected my start page being reset to google. i decline.
does about blank hide in the toolbar from earthlink?
as my harddrive died about a month ago i don't have much to lose on it and i am about ready to dump the whole thing and reinstall windows.
it only took three tries with the men from mombay at dell support screwing me up the first two times but i've put more time in trying to stop about blank then it took to reinstall. will that get rid of my problem?
spybot always finds the same five bad keys when i run the sequence.

 

i'm running windows xp home on a dell dimension 4600c.
i looked at the posting but did not find the services mentioned so did not think it applied.
got the updated se version of adaware and deleted the no good one.
could not figure out how to get free plug ins.
se version found nothing.

 

here's the last one

 

every time i close an internet explorer window about blank appears and internet explorer has to close. dr watson post problem analyzer starts and then has to close. about blank does not respond to close program. these all generate report problem to microsft boxes.

 

following the tutorial i ran the recommended tools before using hijack this.
blaster got the search for it toolbar
it had returned by the time i ran spybot which also found 4 DSO EXPLOIT HKEYs.
many of the instructions in the tutorial and here seem unclear to me. i will try to find someone geekier to help me with them.
thanks for your time

 

you were right it wasn't the hijacker. some how i had hit the custom button while on msconfig and restoring the default fixed the problem. it has been quite the learning experience doing something stupid. thanks for your time.