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Cool Web Search removal
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Posted by: dreigun
A few months back, my computer got a hijacker called "Cool Web Search". It's main symptom is it's continual redirecting of webpages to a page called "about:blank". It automatically changes my homepage to that. I've tried to remove it with numerous programs, some even designed specifically for removing it, but nothing has worked. Programs I've tried include Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, HijackThis, CWShredder, and PestPatrol. HijackThis is the most effective, though all the files regenerate themselves when my comp restarts. I've heard that it's able to remove it completely, but I don't know enough about the files it brings up to know what I can safely remove. If anyone knows, let me know and I'll post a log from it, and any other help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by: redwench
your restore is putting it back. cwshredder removes most variants quite well.
Posted by: dreigun
CWShredder removes "searchx" and occasionally restores some items, but relief is never permanent, and about:blank starts popping up again after the computer's been restarted.
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