IE Search infected by Web Search

[Luigi]

IE Search window keeps bringing up search "Powered by Web Search". I want
the default windows search engines. I can't find it listed in ad-aware,
spybot or remove/add programs. Does it go by another name?

Louie

[Robin T Cox]

"Luigi" <zarquon@fastmail.fm> wrote in
news:iPKdnQuLZfpo2Vui4p2dnA@comcast.com:

> IE Search window keeps bringing up search "Powered by Web Search". I want
> the default windows search engines. I can't find it listed in ad-aware,
> spybot or remove/add programs. Does it go by another name?
>
> Louie
>

Prime suspect must be CoolWebSearch:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1224328,00.asp
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder to remove it:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Then have a look at these sites to prevent re-infection:
http://boards.cexx.org/viewtopic.php?t=957
http://www.geocities.com/yosponge/
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm