Problem With IE 6 and Google

[Scott]

I had IE6 set up to use google as my default search engine when doing
address bar searches but something seems to have gone wrong. Now when I
type in items to search for such as "ie search google default" I get a Page
Could Not Be Displayed message with the following in the address bar:
http:///? ie search google deafult
I'm guessing something was altered in the registry since IE is still set to
allow searches from the address bar. I tried applying the google .reg file
to set the default address bar search to google again but it didn't work.
This happened once before and the only way I managed to fix it was doing a
clean install. If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful for the help.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

 

[siljaline]

I had IE6 set up to use google as my default search engine when doing
address bar searches but something seems to have gone wrong. Now when I
type in items to search for such as "ie search google default" I get a Page
Could Not Be Displayed message with the following in the address bar:
http:///? ie search google deafult
I'm guessing something was altered in the registry since IE is still set to
allow searches from the address bar. I tried applying the google .reg file
to set the default address bar search to google again but it didn't work.
This happened once before and the only way I managed to fix it was doing a
clean install. If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful for the help.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

"Cool Web Search" Spyware variant "CWS.Bootconf"
Download and run the CWShredder - Cool Web Shredder.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Close all Windows and running applications, unzip the tool, click
on the executable and follow the prompts.

*Please post back your findings.

HTH

~Silj

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[Scott]

"Cool Web Search" Spyware variant "CWS.Bootconf"
Download and run the CWShredder - Cool Web Shredder.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Close all Windows and running applications, unzip the tool, click
on the executable and follow the prompts.

*Please post back your findings.

HTH

I ran the program and the results were:
Done!
Your system was completely clean.

Windows XP (5.01.2600 SP1)
CWShredder v1.54.0
Written by Merijn - (e-mail address removed)

For any additional help with this program or removing CWS, visit:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

For information and documentation on the Coolwebsearch
trojan and its variants, visit:
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

For donations to help support me, visit:
http://www.merijn.org/donate.html

So it looks like it wasn't CW. Very puzzling. Any other ideas?