I have a question regarding "about blank" which has recently appeared in my Google Chrome.

  • 25 October 2015
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I have been using Google Chrome as my search engine for years now and never had a problem.  I have my Webroot scanning my computer automatically and have no threats being found.  Yesterday I noticed my internet search getting slow and then it stopped entirely.....I noticed "about blank" had taken over......I also noticed when I attempted to get into secure websites the green security ribbon was unavailable.....I have looked into this myself and noticed that it could be a virus and or is possible part of the Google Chrome.....any information or suggestions are appreciated.
 
Thank you!!
 

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Hi djhoffman1016
 
Welcome to the Community Forums.
 
Are you sure that you have had no threats detected and automatically cleaned by WSA without you noticing?
 
The reason I ask is that it is just possible that as the result of such a detect and automatic clean WSA might have had to reset your browser settings; for instances if it had detected a malcious change to those, especailly in terms of homepage, and in cleaning it had to do a reset.
 
It is very much an off chance but without more information there is no way of knowing if this could be a possible reason or it is something more innocuous. Would you be able to check the latest versions of both the WSA Scan Log & Threat Log, to see if anything is flagged up there?
 
Lety us know if you need any help finding an accessing these.
 
Regards, Baldrick

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