My screen went blank today, it turned out to be malware caleld "About blank", and is apparently beyond the ability of most anti spyware programs. It apparently takes over home pages yet this doesn't seem to have happened yet. I looked it up on wikipedia and wasn't happy. It seems possible that the programmay be sponsored by fake anti spyware programs and advertisers for genuine programs. Scary. Is spybot able to detect it and remove it, or can anyone advise me on what I can do.
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Blade81
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