About:Blank Blocked What is it And How to Remove it From The Browser?

About:Blank blocked – what is it? As you well know, there are quite a lot of various malware on the Internet, about which I wrote several articles. For example, for the Yandex browser, the about:blank Yandex command poses a threat, with the participation of which the user is redirected to an infected site, or the start page may be replaced with a malicious one. Let’s take a closer look at this.

If you paste this link into the address bar, you will see sites that talk about this link. What is the threat here? And that part of the malware can infiltrate any browser (Chrome, Mozilla, Yandex, etc.) that you have installed and perform certain negative actions in them. As a result, resources saturated with aggressive advertising will be opened. About:Blank Yandex search will be replaced by another search engine, very similar to Yandex. But, unlike the original, it will look for infected sites.

How can you get rid of this?
There are a certain number of methods for defeating this pest. Now we will begin to consider ways to remove these pests. We will begin to disassemble the simplest of the methods that do not require radical intervention in Windows.

We remove the virus using OS recovery
Let’s first note that the pest control guide we’re going to start with is valid for any version of Windows. The differences are minor and mainly in the design of the windows. The About:Blank command is most often hidden in the browser. From here, by rolling the system back to before the introduction of the virus, all our browsers will become working and the malware will disappear. The only condition for this is the presence of a restore point.

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So, next to the “Start” there is an input line (in Windows 7, you need to click on the “Start” button itself through itself). In this line, we need to enter the word “restore …” and the file “Creating a point …” appears at the top;
So, we have a window where we need to select one of the restore points. I hope you have them. To do this, select the “System Protection” menu, and click on the “Restore” button;

In the new window, click on the “Next” button;

As you can see from the screenshot, I have two such points. We select the one after the creation of which the pest has not yet been on your PC. If in doubt, choose an earlier one;

In a new window, we will need to confirm that we definitely decided to restore the OS from the point we created earlier. Click “Next”;

The system will ask again about our intention to restore the early point. Then, the recovery process will begin and the computer will restart.

After starting the system, the introduced pest should disappear if you choose the right restore point.

We remove the virus by cleaning the registry
So, let’s look at another method of getting rid of About:Blank. This method works great, but it’s just that most people prefer not to mess with the registry. I, in turn, will try to explain everything in as much detail as possible so that you do not have any difficulties.

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Let’s click on two buttons at once Win + R holding them a little. A string entry window opens. It is called the Run command. In this line, enter and then OK.

So, we have a new window for editing the registry. So, to clean the registry, we need to go to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows NT | CurrentVersion | Windows on the files that are in the left column;

Next, we need to create an empty text document on the computer display (or on another part of the PC). To do this, you need to right-click on a free space on the screen and select the “Create” tab in the context menu that appears;
In the new drop-down menu, select “Text Document”;

Next, you need to open the created element and go to the previously opened registry editor. The editor contains the key file ” AppInit_DLLs “. Now, you need to double-click on the found file. We get into the window where editing takes place. We need to highlight the information that is in the “Value” line. After that, this information needs to be copied and pasted into the file we created earlier. Then, we save this file. We will need him later.

After that, you need to remove all information from the “Value” line, it should be empty. Click OK;

After what has been done, it remains for us to restart the PC in “Safe Mode”. There are many ways to do this. The easiest one is to press the F key several times while the computer is booting up. It is quite possible that another key is needed on your computer for this purpose. Therefore, if the safe mode did not boot, during boot, press all the keys of the F row, including Esc;

Then, after starting the system, you need to open the text document that we created. Next, copy the address from this document. It must be inserted into the address bar of the “Explorer”;

So, it remains for us to press Enter to get inside this daddy. Its content must be uninstalled (deleted), since it contains malware;

After the cleaning done, you need to restart the PC again (normal reboot). About:Blank will disappear along with the virus software.

Reset browser settings

This action is an optional step, but a desirable one. These actions help to clear traces of hackers’ tricks. Let’s do these steps for the most popular browsers.

Google Chrome
We need to enter the “Settings” of the browser and put the following combination in the address bar:

We got into the browser settings. Pay attention to the left side of the menu. At the very bottom, we find the command “Reset settings and …”. Let’s not hit her. In the right part of the window, we will have the command “Restore default settings”;

Click on this command. We have a new window “Reset settings”. Click on the button with the same name. The browser has reset all settings along with viruses;

In Yandex Browser, almost the same settings occur. In the left window, select “System”, in the right at the very bottom, click “Reset all settings”.

Opera Browser

More work to be done in this browser. The profile will have to be cleaned manually:

We need to enter the main menu of Opera and click on the “About” tab. We will open data about the browser, where the paths to the files that need to be deleted will be indicated;

Then, we need to copy the path data and paste it into the address bar of the Explorer program. It can be invoked by pressing the Win+E hotkeys;

It remains for us to go to the necessary folders, and select all the elements there by pressing Ctrl + A, then delete these elements by pressing Del.

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Important: when you clean Opera, you will need to close it, otherwise you will not be able to delete files.

Mozilla Firefox
To remove About:Blank in Mozilla, do the following:

We enter the browser menu by clicking on 3 horizontal lines and in the drop-down menu, click on the “Help” tab;
In the new context menu, click on the “Information for Troubleshooting” tab;

You can study the “Application Details” for a bit and then click on the “Clear Firefox” button.

Conclusion: we were able to solve the about:blank blocked problem in one go, without much knowledge. As it turns out, it’s pretty simple. I think you also quickly dealt with this problem, or not?