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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my
address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy-Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg |
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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly
a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy-Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg |
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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Thanks Noel. I ended up using Hijack This to remove it. -Greg -----Original Message----- Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy- Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg . |
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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Glad you're all sorted - which one was it?
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Thanks Noel. I ended up using Hijack This to remove it. -Greg -----Original Message----- Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy- Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg . |
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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Darned ISEARCH.
-----Original Message----- Glad you're all sorted - which one was it? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Thanks Noel. I ended up using Hijack This to remove it. -Greg -----Original Message----- Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy- Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg . . |
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Uninvited search engine advertising on my toolbar
Thanks for the feedback - Good Luck
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp wrote in message ... Darned ISEARCH. -----Original Message----- Glad you're all sorted - which one was it? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Thanks Noel. I ended up using Hijack This to remove it. -Greg -----Original Message----- Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Greg" wrote in message ... Somehow my toolbar (specifically the area underneath my address window) has been infected with some random search engine's advertising. I tried using AD-AWARE and Spy- Bot to remove it but it won't go away. How can I get rid of this? -Greg . . |
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