I got it. A friend showed me how to change the permissions and take ownership.

still can't access it. it already says the owner is the administrator of this computer and I am logged into the adminstrator account. I've tried going to properties and changing it to shared, but...

I had my hard drive removed because the mother board doesn't work anymore. It's now in an external housing case. I pluged it in to this computer and tried to access my files. All other folders and...

That was it, thanks.

I had left my computer running. It went to standby, I didn't turn it back on until the next day. when I tried to adjust the volume by clicking on the icon in the system tray it said there was no...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:11:19 PM, on 3/11/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16414)

Running processes:...

Well, it still wasn't getting rid of it. Then I went into safe mode, rand spybot, adaware, avg, deleted the utility folder, and had hjt fix all those same things, and had hostxpert change everything...

Yes, I did disable Windows Defender.

AC97 SoftV92 Data Fax Modem with SmartCP
Ad-aware 6 Personal
Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX
Adobe Reader 7.0.9
ArcSoft PhotoBase 3
ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5...

It's still there. The only things I didn't follow in your instructions were I didn't have hjt fix the 06 entry because I do have spybot, and I delete the folder Utility from C:Program Files, don't...

I have a toolbar on IE that doesn't go away called Universal Search Toolbar. I think it's also changed my homepage to go to simplenter.com. I know part of it is a file called utility.dll. Plus...

I have a wireless adapter hooked up and installed, but it's not working. I went to network connections, right clicked on my wireless connection, then selected repair. I get this message: "Windows...

i've never fully gotten rid of about:blank, so I constantly use cwshredder to fix the hidden dll, but now I have another thing that changed my homepage to http://0ml.net/cat and i get pop ups now...

i used to be asked if i wanted to save or open mpeg files, but now it just opens them, how to I change the settings back?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 1:00:10 PM, on 7/31/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

i can't get rid of about:blank!!! i did what i was supposed to. i started up in safe mode, ran cwshredder, which i just updated so it got rid of the hklm stuff and the sp file. then i ran spybot and...

here is a log: can i get rid of some of this?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 1:02:09 PM, on 7/13/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1...

I just installed spybot and it found 4 things, so i had get rid of them. but does spybot run in the background all the time, so if i end up going to a site that has about:blank it will get rid of it...

Well, now it just recently came back. I thought it was gone. I ran cws and hjt in safe mode and deleted the stuff i was told to. and then i deleted the sp file, cleared cookies, temp folder, and...

how do you keep about:blank from getting back on your computer?

It seems to be working and fixed now. Thanks. Now how do I prevent this from getting on my computer again?

I downloaded hijackthis and CWshredder. I ran cwshredder in safe mode. then i went back to normal mode and ran hijackthis. here is the log. what do I do next?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan...