browser hijacked

[rlmccall84]

My MSN explorer browser continuously gets hijacked
by "www.search200.com", I use ad-aware to remove it, and
the next time we log on, its back.

Any suggestions on how to remove it forever.

 

[Touch Base]

Name: johnr
Date: June 24, 2004 at 05:33:07 Pacific
Subject: search200 parasite/hijacker

Reply:
Their is a link on the LOP web-page which supposedly provides a
program to uninstall this - haven't been able to try it as I don't have the
problem, but it may be worth a look. It's under the 'How do I remove LOP.com
as my start page' :
http://www.search200.com/help.html


http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/12264.html

Found using google: search200+remove

 

[Mack]

I am no expert but did you try to reset your home page
then clear the cache?

 

[Altrüs]

Hi,

Seeing as you've already found AdAware, you already know
you're on the right track.

www.search200.com seems to be varient on CoolWebSearch
(CWS). While AdAware is an excellent program, CWS has many,
many varients. Therefore a specific utility was designed to
aid the the removal of this program. CWShredder is available
here:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Once you download this program, be sure to update it prior
to running it.

It works much the same way as AdAware, and although the
interface is different, you shouldn't have any problems.

More information is available here:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Altrus





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: My MSN explorer browser continuously gets hijacked
: by "www.search200.com", I use ad-aware to remove it, and
: the next time we log on, its back.
:
: Any suggestions on how to remove it forever.