How to eliminate about:blank

When opening Safari to "my homepage" a blank on appears with About:Blank in the menu. Many of the highlighted sites go to the same about:blank page. It's very annoying. How do I get rid of it?

Thanks

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 10:11 AM

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Feb 24, 2016 2:35 PM in response to virginiafromalbuquerque

Adware is installed without your knowledge, removing it will help.


1. Use free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac/ AdwareMedic to remove adware


http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php


Download, install , open, and run it by clicking “Scan for Adware” button to remove adware.

Once done, quit Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.


or


Remove the adware manually by following the “HowTo” from Apple.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987


Safari 9


Safari > Preferences > Extensions

Disable all extensions and test.

Enable Extensions one by one and test.

To uninstall any extension, select it and click the “Uninstall” button.

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