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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1691408" data-attributes="member: 508">Okay, my computer ignorance is showing again.  Today I went to go to my Hotmail account, and it came up for a second and was then replaced with some screen that said there was spyware on my computer and to "Click Here" to remove it.  I'm kind of leery of doing so, because I've heard a lot of the time that's just a scam, and if you click on the button it does all kinds of bad stuff to your machine.  The thing is, when it does this, the URL line goes from "www.hotmail.com" to "about:blank" -- and I also noticed that "about:blank" shows up as my Home Page under "Internet Options."  I did a google search on "about:blank" and found out it's some kind of Homepage Hijacker, but I couldn't understand the conflicting instructions on the various webpages about .DLL attachments and hidden files with different names.  They're all written for the computer literate, and computer literate is one thing I am not.Anybody have any familiarity with this problem?  What do I do now?  I can't even get to Hotmail long enough to open my Inbox and see if I have any mail.Help!JohnathanEdit:  For some reason, there's a "_" between "about" and ":blank" that I didn't put in there.  It doesn't show up when I look at what I typed, but it's there when I hit "Save Changes" -- weird.</blockquote>