cool web search redirect

[rob]

every time I do a search in IE I get redirected to cool
web. I downloaded coolwebshredder but it did not find
anything. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[Henri Leboeuf]

You probably been hacked by this parasite that uses
CoolWebSearch.

ClientMan
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ClientMan.html

Also, remove all the parasites on your computer.
Delete all the spywares and bad BHOs from your system.
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/spyware.htm

List of bad BHOs.
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

Henri Leboeuf
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

 

[YK]

every time I do a search in IE I get redirected to cool
web. I downloaded coolwebshredder but it did not find
anything. Anybody have any ideas?

From another MS newsgroup:

A new malware is being distributed that hijacks Internet Explorer start and
search settings to one of several different web sites, including
coolwwwsearch.com, coolwebsearch.com, youfindall.net, freebookmark.net,
ok-search.com, yourbookmarks.ws, freebookmarks.net, yourbookmarks.info,
bannedhost.net, itseasy.us, findwhat.com, carsands.com, findloss.com,
runsearch.com, searchv.com, and white-pages.ws.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/

The rest of the July 9 Newsletter,
http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/july-2003/9.php

Get SpyBot available from
http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/ and update the reference files
through their Online update function. Run them and select all items and
remove.
You may have to reboot and rerun a couple of times to completely remove
them.
Also run the Immunize function to
prevent these nasties from installing again.

Get SpywareBlaster to stop these nasties.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Update the reference file through the online update function.

 

[siljaline]

every time I do a search in IE I get redirected to cool
web. I downloaded coolwebshredder but it did not find
anything. Anybody have any ideas?

Have you tried Ad-aware or SpyBot Search & Destroy?

Ad-aware here: http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/privacy___security/aaw6181.exe

SpyBot here: http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su1669/spybotsd12.exe

SpyBot home: http://security.kolla.de/
SpyBot How-To: http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

Install either or use the online update feature to obtain the latest reference
files - scan like you would with your pre-installed anti-virus scanner.

If no joy, use Hijack This:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html

Post your results here: Spyware and Hijackware Removal Support
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?s=597de3eb0bb88279e6790d27b459e6ef&act=SF&f=11


HTH


--
siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_