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about:blank - Microsoft Internet Explorer
I'm running Windows XP (SP2), with Internet Explorer 6.0.2900. I keep having a problem when closing a window. Wyen I click on the "X" in top right corner to close a window, the window contents disappear, but I'm left with a blank screen (labeled "about:blank - Microsoft Internet Explorer"), which I can't close by clicking on the top-right "X." The only way I can get the blank window to close is by calling up the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), highlighting "about:blank - Microsoft Interner Explorer," and clicking "End Program.
How can I eliminate this problem?
- Go to the two locations listed below and read about "About Blank". Good Luck if you have "About Blank" on your computer. Very hard to get rid of.
- there is indeed [a rather old piece of] malware --- a homepage hijacker --- by the name of about:blank.but about:blank can also be used to designate that the user simply wants to open IE, without it automatically loading any particular web page.Tools / Internet Options / (HomePage) Use BlankThis second case is simply a user choice, and not malware.it's important to distinguish between these.since the problem only occurs upon trying to exit IE, it sounds more like a "bad" installation of IE --- or a conflict with something else running --- than malware.
Message Edited by ky331 on 11-29-2007 10:54 AM
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Posted November 19th, 2007 14:00