Recent content by Rock55214

Hey all....Success!!!! Finaly got that SOB off my users computer. I ended up using both Hijack This and About Buster. I had to run both a few times and pick and choose things to delete and in the end...no more cool web search. IE comes up fine now and it no longer redirects the home page to a...

Thanks for the help guys. I will post back as soon as i get a chance to try these suggestions out.

well im not sure what to say about why your sys is slowing down, but i know that it is fairly commen for the system idle process to take that much cpu percentage. My home pc's sys idle is about the same but with out the slowdown in preformance. Try running task manager and clicking on the...

Hi guys, Thanks for all the help. I ran the HJT and deleted the entries that you suggested carr, as well as ran the about buster tool. Which deleted a whole bunch of .Dll's that im pretty sure were made by the CWS. However, i rebooted and ran another HJT scan and this is what came up.. Logfile...

you also might try running virus, adware and spyware scans to be on the safe side. Sometimes those will cause sys to slow down.

well the only thing that comes to mind at the moment would be to either disconnect the connection that goes to the router or disable it through the network places properties. Althought having a connection to a direct internet source (providing that its a cable line that is always connected)...

If need be you might also try uninstalling the printer from the 98 machine and reinstalling it. Although I havent really had much experiance with win98 I dont think that you need to install print drivers on the 98 machine if you are just adding a network printer.

So carr, with it being Monday and all :-) whats your opinion on my Hijackthis log? Thanks again for the help

ok here is the hijack this log from the infected pc and yes it is a win2k machine. Thanks for the help. Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 3:17:35 PM, on 8/27/2004 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes...

I currently have a pc that has Cool Web Search on it. I have tried everything that i can think of or heard of so far to get rid of it. I have run a number McAfee virus scans with all the latest updates. As well as Spybot search and destroy, Adaware and cwshredder. The adaware can detect the...

well i tried running cwshredder, the systems comes up as being clean but when i run IE coolweb is still there. If you guys have any more ideas i would appreciate it. just a little more info, its a win2k machine Thanks

Hi, Im having trouble with explorer.exe in windows xp pro. When ever i right click on the open desk top explorer.exe hangs and all i get is an hour glass. I have to end going in to task manager, kill it then restart it. This only happens with the open desktop. I can right click on files...

Hi, I currently have a pc that has a verson of "cool web search" ive done every thing that i can do delete it. Ive run ad aware, it detects it but cant delete it. Also ive run other spyware programs like Spybot Search and Destroy" and Spy Sweeper and still no luck. I would Really appreciate...