Good morning!
I had posted this in the IE newsgroup, but nobody
responded....any takers here?

What is the deal with CWS? It's to the point that I run
shredder several times a day! Also, I run the following:
CWShredder
Hijackthis
Spybot
Ad-aware
.....and I've tried several others. I always update these
ever day, but it doesn't seem to have any impact other
than a few minutes reprieve. Sometimes, I can't even get
into some Microsoft sites as I'm re-directed by this
insidious spyware!

To top it all off, if I run a search on Microsoft's web
site for "CWS" or "Coolwebsearch" - I get no matches or
hits! Is Microsoft hoping if they don't acknowledge this
problem, we'll all assume it's not that big a deal? It's
to the point now that I have to use Opera or Netscape, IE
barely works and, when it does, the pop-ups never stop
and my system grinds to a halt.

Has anyone ever removed this completely, totally, from
their system????

Thanks!
- Rob

I've removed it. I was in the same situtation as you where it kept coming
back.

The trick was that you have to delete a registry key and reboot, otherwise
it will come back. Unfortunately I'm not at home so I can't direct you to
the key to delete, but I hope this information will aid in your search. You
can trying searching groups.google.com, I've posted the key in the MS news
groups before, you can try doing a search for CWShredder and my name and
maybe something will come up.


"Rob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:143601c47bb2$e499db20$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Good morning!
> I had posted this in the IE newsgroup, but nobody
> responded....any takers here?
>
> What is the deal with CWS? It's to the point that I run
> shredder several times a day! Also, I run the following:
> CWShredder
> Hijackthis
> Spybot
> Ad-aware
> ....and I've tried several others. I always update these
> ever day, but it doesn't seem to have any impact other
> than a few minutes reprieve. Sometimes, I can't even get
> into some Microsoft sites as I'm re-directed by this
> insidious spyware!
>
> To top it all off, if I run a search on Microsoft's web
> site for "CWS" or "Coolwebsearch" - I get no matches or
> hits! Is Microsoft hoping if they don't acknowledge this
> problem, we'll all assume it's not that big a deal? It's
> to the point now that I have to use Opera or Netscape, IE
> barely works and, when it does, the pop-ups never stop
> and my system grinds to a halt.
>
> Has anyone ever removed this completely, totally, from
> their system????
>
> Thanks!
> - Rob
>

Also make sure you delete the contents of your c:\windows\prefetch
directory. Stuff is in here so windows can load faster. It will rebuild
automatically.


"Paul Bobrowski" <pbobrowski-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've removed it. I was in the same situtation as you where it kept coming
> back.
>
> The trick was that you have to delete a registry key and reboot, otherwise
> it will come back. Unfortunately I'm not at home so I can't direct you to
> the key to delete, but I hope this information will aid in your search.
You
> can trying searching groups.google.com, I've posted the key in the MS news
> groups before, you can try doing a search for CWShredder and my name and
> maybe something will come up.
>
>
> "Rob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:143601c47bb2$e499db20$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Good morning!
> > I had posted this in the IE newsgroup, but nobody
> > responded....any takers here?
> >
> > What is the deal with CWS? It's to the point that I run
> > shredder several times a day! Also, I run the following:
> > CWShredder
> > Hijackthis
> > Spybot
> > Ad-aware
> > ....and I've tried several others. I always update these
> > ever day, but it doesn't seem to have any impact other
> > than a few minutes reprieve. Sometimes, I can't even get
> > into some Microsoft sites as I'm re-directed by this
> > insidious spyware!
> >
> > To top it all off, if I run a search on Microsoft's web
> > site for "CWS" or "Coolwebsearch" - I get no matches or
> > hits! Is Microsoft hoping if they don't acknowledge this
> > problem, we'll all assume it's not that big a deal? It's
> > to the point now that I have to use Opera or Netscape, IE
> > barely works and, when it does, the pop-ups never stop
> > and my system grinds to a halt.
> >
> > Has anyone ever removed this completely, totally, from
> > their system????
> >
> > Thanks!
> > - Rob
> >
>
>