About: blank has not affected my homepage. Every time I close a window in IE6 I hear a click exactly like the one that sounds when clicking the "Back" button or when clicking the "search" button on a search engine. I have noticed in the status bar when I close IE6 that "Opening page about: blank" flashes VERY quickly in the status bar on the bottom left of my screen, then the window closes. Each time that flashes I hear the click. I’ve run my McAfee and Windows Defender to try to catch but no luck. How do I get this removed and stopped?

for example if I go to www.wikipedia.com it works. If i do a search on yahoo, google, etc and then try to go it does nothing just freezes and I have to reboot. This goes for any website or search I try to perform. No error messages just freezes up.

I have done spyware, malware, clean registry etc, cache, firewall turn off, run mcafee and windows programs reinstall etc. Please I need something more! Is this a virus? what else could it be? Everything else with the computer is fine not slow plenty of memory etc. Just the prob with the search.

I’ve tried Trend Micro, McAfee, Norton, Registry Mechanic, CA, and several freeware programs like Zone Alarm, AVG, Advanced System Care, Spyware Blaster, Easy Cleaner, and most recently COMODO Internet Security. It seems to me like they all worked somewhat well for a while. Seems like either the program gets too cumbersome or the PC ends up slowing way down. Even had 3 PC’s die after getting slow. Got a laptop now that’s really slowed down. Do you just need to switch security providers frequently? Who do you trust??

I was going through my registry and I found an entire list of previously used firewalls and AV’s. Each of these programs has been completely installed and removed from my computer quite a while ago. After I found these entries I deleted them since they are utterly useless and just take up space. However, I reopened the registry and all the entries rewrote them selves back to where the were before I deleted them.

What is going on? Why can I not remove these useless entries and how do I permanently get rid of them?

Wouldn’t this be considered malware since it is not removable and rewrites itself after being deleted? These are entries from big named companies like norton, mcafee, and several others.

You see, I have two laptops. Between the two laptops, one has a virus protection whereas the other one doesn’t. I no longer have the McAfee’s (Antivirus) CD in my possession. So, Is it possible to send a Virus Protection program from one computer to another? If so, how?

Thanks a lot guys!