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Chuck in Minot
Hello to all, a few days back I posted here in the hopes of tapping
some of the brain power here about my problems with IE, and for
a link if there was one. Well I finally found out what it was, and
the problem is very wide spread, and perhaps you or someone
else might have been having these same problems, and so I thought
since I have received so much help here in the past with my Excel
problems and questions, I would return the kindness by posting
the problem and fix for the problem that I encountered with my IE
just in case somebody else is having the same symptoms.
Tracking this down was very hard, and finally after 2 whole weeks
of searching and digging I finally found out what it was, thought
I might save somebody else all the trouble.
It seems that hijacking spyware and such are really starting to
become a problem, and lots of people are being zapped by them.
If you have any of these problems, your machine is most likely
hijacked by Coolwebsearch, a new very nasty type of Spyware
that is updated and changed daily to keep Anti-Spyware folks busy.
Even thought I have Spybot, and had it updated, Coolwebsearch
still nailed me, and installed itself into my registry.
Symptom & Problems related to a Coolwebsearch hijacking..
o IE Scrolling is very slow, jittery, sluggish even on a DSL.
o Long delay when trying to highlight text on a web page.
o Long delay when typing text into fields on web pages.
o IE delays when closing up to 30 seconds or more
o ZoneAlarm alert of Coolweb???.exe wants to access the net.
I used CWShredder, and it removed the deeply embedded Coolwebsearch
registry entries, and now my IE is running just like it was before, but I
have also locked IE down a whole lot better than what I had it.
Here are the links once again to learn more, and what to do
and how to fix and prevent.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Chuck
some of the brain power here about my problems with IE, and for
a link if there was one. Well I finally found out what it was, and
the problem is very wide spread, and perhaps you or someone
else might have been having these same problems, and so I thought
since I have received so much help here in the past with my Excel
problems and questions, I would return the kindness by posting
the problem and fix for the problem that I encountered with my IE
just in case somebody else is having the same symptoms.
Tracking this down was very hard, and finally after 2 whole weeks
of searching and digging I finally found out what it was, thought
I might save somebody else all the trouble.
It seems that hijacking spyware and such are really starting to
become a problem, and lots of people are being zapped by them.
If you have any of these problems, your machine is most likely
hijacked by Coolwebsearch, a new very nasty type of Spyware
that is updated and changed daily to keep Anti-Spyware folks busy.
Even thought I have Spybot, and had it updated, Coolwebsearch
still nailed me, and installed itself into my registry.
Symptom & Problems related to a Coolwebsearch hijacking..
o IE Scrolling is very slow, jittery, sluggish even on a DSL.
o Long delay when trying to highlight text on a web page.
o Long delay when typing text into fields on web pages.
o IE delays when closing up to 30 seconds or more
o ZoneAlarm alert of Coolweb???.exe wants to access the net.
I used CWShredder, and it removed the deeply embedded Coolwebsearch
registry entries, and now my IE is running just like it was before, but I
have also locked IE down a whole lot better than what I had it.
Here are the links once again to learn more, and what to do
and how to fix and prevent.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Chuck