Yeah i've been in there before posted aout the about:blank hijacker, you might of seen my post. Basically i've tried loads of things, however it seems to come back 2 days later, tried that fix...

Just posting to firstly say thankyou for the help that has been submitted in the thread.:)

In terms of my error report the dcom errors seem to have stopped a bit,
instead i get the ocasional
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Based on the two logs i posted earlier, when i turned the router firewall on did it restrict some of the activity and if so is it ok just to use that?

And should a format/reinstall wipe the stuff clean from my hardrive, the hijacker etc?

Concerning the firewall will the one i enabled on my router be suffcient? or should i install zone alarm for example?

Mesh did give me a recovery disk, which lets me either:

1. roll back to last good boot.
2. roll back to the original installation- state when delivered.
3. reinstall clean windows.
4 reformat...

I have been considering it, my pc is newish bought it from Mesh at the end of May, i dont want to reformat due to a possible breach in my warranty etc, i hope i can fix it somehow first, or maybe get...

I cant get the scan to work on their site, my Internet Explorer crashes, should i install firefox for example and try and run it from that?

Checked my error logs today and i dont have any dcom ones so far.

Well the Phage one worked for 2 days, now its back, here is my latest log :-|

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 13:30:06, on 01/07/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)...

Basically its a wireless adsl router in another room that i connect to via a wireless usb device. I can enable a firewall on the router i think. I have just enabled the firewall on my router i think....

I looked at the folder where the updates download, which i believe is the wutemp folder on my c:\ drive, the update file was there but when i tried to run it and the error it came up with was:
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Only things i have done recently have been following the various guides and help to try and remove the About:Blank IE Hijacker.

The D-Com has been there for a while, never caused me any problems,...

I dont directly connect to the Internet on the machine, i connect using a wireless gateway. In terms of firewall i aint currently been using one (stupid i know). Was going to install Zone alarm, not...

I was looking into my error log and noticed these various errors:

Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM Server using DefaultLaunchPermssion. The server is: {00020906-0000-0000-C000-...

Ok thanks for the reply, i carried out the process mentioned in that thread you pointed me to, my homepage is back to normal i hope it remains that way.

Thanks again.

Well i recently got this about:blank thing that kept redirecting my homepage and kept giving me popups, i followed some of the advice on here and managed to get rid of it but about 2 days later it...