Autosearch not working

[Jim]

Recently the autosearch feature on the address bar stopped working. I have
run antivirus, Ad-aware, etc,etc. to no avail. I have researched this and
other newsgroups, web sites and made the suggested registry changes. Still
no change. When I type a word to search on I get "web page not found and
http:///? followed by whatever word I searched for on the address bar.
My only success came when I created a new user account and signed on. IE6
then seems to work fine. When I switch back to my original account IE6
reverts back to the problem. Obviously the registry entries for the 2 user
accounts are different. Maybe there is a way I can compare them. Any
ideas?

Thanks

Jim

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Recently the autosearch feature on the address bar stopped working.
I have run antivirus, Ad-aware, etc,etc. to no avail. I have
researched this and other newsgroups, web sites and made the
suggested registry changes. Still no change. When I type a word to
search on I get "web page not found and http:///? followed by
whatever word I searched for on the address bar. My only success came
when I created a new user account and signed on. IE6 then seems to
work fine. When I switch back to my original account IE6 reverts
back to the problem. Obviously the registry entries for the 2 user
accounts are different. Maybe there is a way I can compare them.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Jim

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each need to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.

If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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[H Leboeuf]

It's from this parasite. If the tools recommended by Frank do not remove
this, then get the one listed here.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
More: http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=640

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

It's from this parasite. If the tools recommended by Frank do not
remove this, then get the one listed here.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
More: http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=640

cwshredder is listed on that site.

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