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Thank you. It helped!
>-----Original Message-----
> CWShredder Review
> A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka
CoolWwwSearch,
>YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names).
Spybot S&D tends to
>forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it
updates, you can just this
>to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the
new variants once
>they come out.
>
> This tool will find and destroy all traces of the
CoolWebSearch (CWS)
>hijacker on your system. This includes:
>
> · Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
> · Redirections when mistyping URLs
> · Redirections when visiting Google
> · Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
> · IE start page/search page changing on reboot
> · Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add
> · Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
> · Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
> · Unable to change or see certain items in IE
Options
> · Unable to access IE Options at all
>
>http://www.soft32.com/download_19014.html
>
>
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
>news:2092001c45948$111b84b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> could you say a little about what it does and where I
can
>> obtain it?
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >try the program "CWShredder"
>> >
>> >should solve your problem
>> >
>> >
>> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
>> Newsbeitrag
>> >news:2010f01c4590f$236c0600$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> Hi again and thank you for your reply.
>> >> I went to regedit, but wow there is a lot of stuff in
>> >> there. I do not know where to begin and where to end
>> and I
>> >> am not very keen on touching anything. I tried to
search
>> >> for the webadress of the search-page which is a
strange
>> >> one: it says nothing but 'about:blank' in the adress-
>> line,
>> >> but nothing came up.
>> >>
>> >> Could you possibley give me a little more guiding?
>> >> Please...
>> >>
>> >> Greetings
>> >> >-----Original Message-----
>> >> >when i had this problem i went in the registry
editor
>> and
>> >> searched for the web address that the home page is
set
>> to
>> >> and deleted every result that came up with a match to
>> that
>> >> website. Also check in task manager for processes
that
>> >> don't look familiar to you and stop them. If you find
>> the
>> >> right one that will let you change the home page
searh
>> for
>> >> that process (whatever.exe) and delete it, but make
sure
>> >> you're definate it is the right one.
>> >> >
>> >> >Sorry i can't be more in depth about what process to
>> look
>> >> for but they could be called anything. When the
search
>> >> files and folders come up with a folder where
the .exe
>> >> lives get rid of that too.
>> >> >
>> >> >Hope this helps
>> >> >
>> >> >"Ulrik Dige" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hi, I wonder if this is the right section to put
my
>> >> >> question, but here I go:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It seems that our computer has caught a spyware-
>> thing,
>> >> >> that my antispyware-programme cannot remove. My
IE-
>> >> >> startpage is change and I cannot re-change it and
>> keep
>> >> it
>> >> >> there. It comes up with a strange search-page and
>> >> causes a
>> >> >> few other (it seems) things.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have only got free-ware programmes (Ad-ware and
>> >> Spybot).
>> >> >> They can detect the spyware, but seemingly not
remove
>> >> it.
>> >> >> But is it not possible to manually remove such
>> things?
>> >> >> Does anyone outthere know how to do it and do
youdare
>> >> >> guide me through such an operation if I gave you
an
>> >> >> description of the (to me known) spyware-things
on my
>> >> >> harddrive (names, location etc.)?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I hope that someone can help as this problem
starts
>> to
>> >> >> annoy us!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Greetings
>> >> >>
>> >> >.
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
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