IE 6

[Joe]

Somehow an application (or something) is re-setting my
favorites to http://approvedlinks.com/main/hp.htm. How can
I get rid of this?

 

[YoKenny]

Somehow an application (or something) is re-setting my
favorites to http://approvedlinks.com/main/hp.htm. How can
I get rid of this?

They are part of the CoolWebSearch browser hijacking parasite.
Get CWShredder and unpack the CWSredder.exe and run it.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Read about it:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites and Toolbars
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm