Hijacked Search Page and Customization

[Kurt]

My search page now comes up Cool Web Search. When I
click on Customize, the options come up completely
blank, i.e. all white. How can I get yahoo search to
come back up? Thanks in advance. -- Kurt

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Download CoolWebSearch destroyer from here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
[Exe] http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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What You Should Know About the Sasser Worm and It Variants:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp
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My search page now comes up Cool Web Search. When I
click on Customize, the options come up completely
blank, i.e. all white. How can I get yahoo search to
come back up? Thanks in advance. -- Kurt

 

[Don Varnau]

Kurt,
Download and run CWShredder from
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

More info at CWS Chronicles:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Some of the CWS variants are very difficult to remove. If unsuccessful with
CWShredder, post back to this thread.

You should probably follow up with Ad-aware and/or Spybot. You may have
other malware installed.
See: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm for more information,
including security tips.

Don