Chris Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 CWShredder™ Version is the latest defense against the new Cool Web Search variants. What's New With CWShredder? Originally developed and updated by a graduate student in the Netherlands, CWShredder™ is now maintained by InterMute.More | HereA small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D tends to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants once they come out.This tool will find and destroy all traces of the CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijacker on your system. This includes:- Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages - Redirections when mistyping URLs- Redirections when visiting Google- Enormous IE slowdowns when typing- IE start page/search page changing on reboot- Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add- Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching- Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE- Unable to change or see certain items in Internet Explorer Options- Unable to access Internet Explorer Options at allWhat's New in CWShredder 2.0:Originally developed and updated by a graduate student in the Netherlands, CWShredder™ is now maintained by InterMute. CWShredder used in conjunction with SpySubtract offers you the strongest defense against Spyware threats.Note: CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1 and v2) is a newer, real ugly variant of CoolWWWSearch. When running, it will close every browser window you use to visit a large list of anti-spyware-sites, and even will close Spybot-S&D and some other anti-spyware applications as well. Download CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1/v2) MiniRemoval which can disable this latest version.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 What can I say... so far most people on the anti-spyware forums do not seem very happy with it. :mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 c:\program files\InterMute\SpySubtractIt seems to install itself and as far as I can tell it does not inform you of this.Well OK it does mention install = Do'h , but I was hoping it would be like previous versions.Also includes another tool: IMReport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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