text: how do you contract the about:blank virus? aim? particular web sites? where's it come from?   give up using windows, and install linux on your computer. linux is immune to all viruses, malware, spyware and adware.  linux is a complete operating system that is either free or very cheap ($10-$30) and comes bundled with a huge variety of free software.  the linux desktop is amazingly flexible and customizable, and anyone who is used to windows will soon feel comfortable with it - and shocked by how dull their old windows system looks by comparison! for example, in linux you can use up to twenty (yes twenty) separate desktop work spaces - windows only gives you one.  go to www.distrowatch.com to find out how to get all the popular flavors of linux...  ...then do an image search for linux screen grabs on google.  be cool - get linux  dc :)