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President_Elect_Shang · #1 March 12th, 2004, 09:34 PM

My system has been invaded by something called �CoolWWWSearch� and no matter what I do every time I restart the computer it comes right back. I have tried �Spybot � Search and Destroy� and even gone into the registry to try and find the entries. Nothing seems to be working, I have emailed the support link on the page that keeps popping up (it seems to be some kind of web search software) but I doubt they will respond. Every time I start my system up it overwrites its own home page as my default homepage.

Any suggestions?

I am so pissed off right now I can hardly think straight!

[ March 13, 2004, 01:35: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

Slynky · #2 March 12th, 2004, 09:42 PM

I use a pretty good search and destroy program (out of Germany) but I'm at work now and don't remember the name of it. I'll get it later when I get home if you are interested.

tesco samoa · #3 March 12th, 2004, 09:42 PM

http://computercops.biz/article-4736-nested-0-0.html

Slynky · #4 March 12th, 2004, 09:43 PM

Or you might try this:

Smart Killer mini-removal

tesco samoa · #5 March 12th, 2004, 09:44 PM

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=news

Go to the bottom of the page...

Ragnarok · #6 March 12th, 2004, 09:47 PM

My mom just had this on her PC at home, or at least something similar.

All I had to do was run ad-aware, remove all of that junk (she had 316 items

) and then in the start menu/programs there was an item there called search something and I just ran the uninstaller for that, then went to my computer/c:/program files and deleted the rest of the files related to that. It is now gone. Hope that helps.