Cool Web Search - CWShredder - spyware

Cool Web Search is one the most evil, and imaginative, pieces of malware out there. It buries itself so deep in so many places in your system that it’s extremely hard to get rid of.

Typically referred to as a “browser hijacker,” it can render a system close to useless. It waltzed right by my antivirus (shame on you antivirus companies for ignoring spyware – but that’s another story) and seemed to come in via an Internet Explorer hole. Webroot, Microsoft’s AntiSpyware beta, and Spybot would all kill and remove various parts of it, but not in it’s entirety.

It kept changing my homepage, giving me endless popups, redirecting my browser wherever it wanted, and generally causing mayhem and slowing down my system to the point of near unusability. I performed surgery on Windows XP and finally killed it by manually deleting files and killing processes.

I wish I had known about CWShredder ! This great free utility has one goal in life, ridding a system of Cool Web Search. It seems to do a fantastic job, and I hope to not need to verify that again :)

So how do you know you've gotten hit by Cool Web Search? Easy, your antispyware tells you, but can't seem to get rid of it!