Spirit

Try this - CLOSE IE Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc

find HOSTS and right click and rename it to HOSTSold or similar.

Try IE now.... if this solves the problem HOSTS is an editable text file
so you can use Notepad or Wordpad to edit it.

"Debweb" <Debweb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32190A6A-B597-45DA-9672-1C8E1104EBA5@microsoft.com...
> Here is the short version- Have had a new computer with Vista Premium for
> 4
> weeks and have had this problem almost since then.
> It was at first only on one site that I am on daily and though I got rid
> of
> it but it has
> started again. I get aboutblank white page that covers up the page that I
> select. Aboutblank sometimes flashes in the address bar. It has not
> affected
> my home page but if I go to Internet options where I have made bellsouth
> my
> home page, under default is msn but if I click blank page it says
> aboutblank.
> Have tried to delete it but won't. I had heard this could be spyware so I
> have used adaware, cwshredder and about 4 others but still there. A tech
> on a
> site looked at my hijackthis report and had me delete a few things and it
> went away off this site but started when I would search for something. I
> have
> also heard this could pertain to IE7 settings though mine are on default
> my
> tabbing is un enabled.
> Any idea what this is and how to fix it?
>
> Deb