Re: IE default Page

[Justin.Ross () signalsolutionsinc com]

My experience was that the fix (CWShredder) would not "take", until the 
machine was restarted after applying it. Applying fix, and then opening 
the browser just lead to reinfection. possibly because of a cached 
registry value/hive/key. 

Justin Ross
MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCSA, CCSE, CCSI
Senior Network Security Engineer
Signal Solutions Inc.    -   http://www.signalcorp.com
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Sierra Vista, AZ  85635
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Email: Justin.Ross () signalsolutionsinc com






Try this out, I had one that was doing that and used the technique 
described by LoPhatPhuud in the web-forum topic linked below to remove it. 
 The only difference was that my .dll and .cpy.dll files had a different 
base name.  But it's easy enough to find as it's mentioned in the Guardian 
branch and should be the only .cpy.dll file in the system32 directory.  It 
is set to hidden, system, and read-only, so you'll need to tell Windows to 
show it to you.

http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=13744


> Interesting bug going around, coolwebsearch, has anyone been successful 
in
> removing this virus from a system? It looks like it recreates the DLL 
under
> c:\windows\system32 and renames it after a few reboots. It's pretty 
annoying
> and I haven't been able to fully contain it.
>
> Thoughts? Suggestions? I've used highjackthis, cwshredder and a few 
spyware
> detectors, but nothing is really fixing the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Wes


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