Re: Hijacked home page

From: Jim Grimmett (cssjwg_at_bath.ac.uk)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:49:46 GMT

"Ted & Margaret Barnett" <barnett@froggy.com.au> wrote:
>
> My home page has been hijacked by CWS, (coolsearchweb) and I cannot get rid
> of it.
> I have used Adaware.Spybot, CWS Shredder, Spyware Doctor and Spyware
> Blaster. All to no avail.
> Can anyone help?

Check here:

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

You need to run CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller removal tool before
running CWS Shredder and Hijack This. They should then both work.

Cheers, Jim.

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