By using about:blank pages, infections have a blank canvas that can be used by installed malicious toolbars, browser helper objects, and executables to display what they want.

What is About Blank? As the name suggests, about:blank is simply a blank web page inside your web browser. Chrome uses about:blank and so too does Safari. All about:blank does is ensure that when you ...

The page opened but would immediately be covered by a blank page called "about:blank." He wasn't able to close this blank page, although it could be minimized.

Millions of documents are printed each year with pages that read “This page is intentionally left blank.” Why do we waste so much paper, and are the pages really blank?