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368325 2005-06-30 23:30:00 I think I may have had this. This morning my browser decided it wuld only load certain webpages. One that wouldn't was this one.
I did a seacrh with AdAware, Spybot and Counterspy. Clean. Ran Hijackthis. Clean (I only have 1/2 dozen entries anyway). Ran CWShredder. It did not fing about:blank but did find another hijacker. The manual removal instructions said to remove certain files. I did not have any of them.
So I attempeted to get PCWorld again and bookmarked it while it was doing nothing. The bookmark reported about:Blank as the page.
SO I went into the registry and checked for the .dll - none listed. So I deleted all IEs home, search and default page listings completely. I do not actually have IE installed anymore although those reg entries remained.
Go back on the net, everythings fine.

What do you guys think? It couldn't quite do it due to IE being gone? It was a variant? I still have it?
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:24:53 a.m., on 1/07/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Unable to get Internet Explorer version!

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasDTServ.exe
D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasServ.exe
D:\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zapro.exe
C:\WINDOWS\ATKKBService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\tcpsvcs.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZONELABS\vsmon.exe
D:\Mozilla\mozilla.exe
D:\Temp\Business\Protection\HijackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - D:\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [sunasDTServ] D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasDTServ.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [sunasServ] D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasServ.exe
O4 - Global Startup: ZoneAlarm Pro.lnk = D:\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zapro.exe
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
O23 - Service: ATK Keyboard Service (ATKKeyboardService) - ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. - C:\WINDOWS\ATKKBService.exe
O23 - Service: ForceWare IP service (nSvcIp) - Unknown owner - d:\NVIDIA\NETWOR~1\bin\nSvcIp.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Zone Labs Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZONELABS\vsmon.exe
pctek (84)
368326 2005-06-30 23:37:00 I would check your hosts file first
If you don't know how to do it manually use Spybots Advanced Mode > Tools section to check it
bartsdadhomer (80)
368327 2005-06-30 23:38:00 I would check your hosts file first
If you don't know how to do it manually use Spybots Advanced Mode > Tools section to check it
localhost 127.0.0.1
pctek (84)
368328 2005-07-01 00:03:00 www.file.net

run HJT while in safe mode.
tweak'e (69)
368329 2005-07-01 01:01:00 Interesting the asus keyboard thing and the ATI stuff were there for ages.
Anyway, removal of it all hasn't caused a problem so best gone I think.
Thanks guys.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 11:54:33 a.m., on 1/07/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Unable to get Internet Explorer version!

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasDTServ.exe
D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasServ.exe
D:\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zapro.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\tcpsvcs.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZONELABS\vsmon.exe
D:\Temp\Business\Protection\HijackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - D:\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [sunasDTServ] D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasDTServ.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [sunasServ] D:\CounterSpy Client\sunasServ.exe
O4 - Global Startup: ZoneAlarm Pro.lnk = D:\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zapro.exe
O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Zone Labs Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZONELABS\vsmon.exe
pctek (84)
368330 2005-07-01 01:23:00 shouldn't there be more to the HJT log ??

also running firewals etc off a different drive/partition is not always a good idea.

i assume you have IE removed ??
tweak'e (69)
368331 2005-07-01 04:20:00 shouldn't there be more to the HJT log ??

also running firewals etc off a different drive/partition is not always a good idea.

i assume you have IE removed ??
1) Why?

2) Why?

3) As I said, its uninstalled.
pctek (84)
368332 2005-07-01 05:34:00 Tried about:blank buddy (www.soft32.com) ? Peterj116 (6762)
368333 2005-07-01 07:42:00 Tried about:blank buddy (www.soft32.com) ?
Yes. Find it hopeless. Anyway now after removing the ASUS and ATI entries plus what I did before, everythings fine.
pctek (84)
368334 2005-07-01 08:06:00 most of the about:blank hijacks are for IE.

however other browser do have their ver of about blank when they can't load pages etc.

i wonder if its related to a few DNS outages i've seen recently. the only reason i had net access this morning was due to my DNS cacheing.

1)hjt logs usually have more tho with a stripped out system it could be less.
2)you can get problems with core programs being installed on different drives/partitions than the OS exspecailly when you format/reinstall.
tweak'e (69)
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