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Bob - 30 Oct 2003 01:24 GMT

I have Yahoo set as my home page. Periodically the home page is switched
without my knowing it to something calle "Cool Web search." I switch the
homepage back to Yahoo and it holds for a day or so and then I'm switched
again. How is this happening and how do I stop it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Robert Duffy - 31 Oct 2003 03:39 GMT

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/

CWS is a trojan that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one
of several different web sites (see below). Most of these web sites appear to
have an affiliate relationship with coolwebsearch.com in which coolwebsearch
pays them for every visitor they refer.

| I have Yahoo set as my home page. Periodically the home page is switched

without my knowing it to something calle "Cool Web search." I switch the
homepage back to Yahoo and it holds for a day or so and then I'm switched again.
How is this happening and how do I stop it?

| Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reply to this Message

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