Removing Spyware

Indexion
04-12-2004, 01:53 PM
Ive got some spyware and i want to get rid of it. Bazooka Spyware Scanner detected the following:

CoolWebSearch.iefeatsl
CoolWebSearch.mssearch
CoolWebSearch.image
MS Media Player GUID

It has directions on how to remove them but i think they are a bit over my head.

Spybot Search and Destroy detects around 30 problems but whenever i click fix it says it fixes them but nothing seems to happen and the spyware is still affecting me. Any help would be appreciated.

CooLGuY
04-12-2004, 02:26 PM
i use HijackThis.exe

iNVAR
04-12-2004, 03:46 PM
adaware should take care of what spybot misses.

FREAK
04-12-2004, 04:35 PM
i think cws is kind of nasty and theres a specific remover for it, let me find the link


yes, here it is
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe


a copy/paste from his website
(zipped) "A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D and Ad-aware tend to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until they update, you can use this to completely remove the hijack. This program is updated to remove the new variants once they come out.
Read my article with documentation on Coolwebsearch here.
Updated very, very often"

Indexion
04-12-2004, 07:29 PM
thanks, that last one looks like it took care of it!