Hello Jack,

It appears that you've done a good deal attempting to get rid of this
'parasite". Here is some food for thought and a couple of links that may
help.

You didn't indicate if you had went into the Registry or not. If not, you
may want to take a look at this key: HKEY_Current_User \ Software \
Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main. Then find the key with the value
"Start Page". If it doesn't have the Google URL then double click the key
and change the value to Google's homepage.

Check out The CoolWebSearch Chronicles here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html#cwshredder. This site
is very informative and offers a small program called "CWShredder" that may
do the job in your case.

StartPage Guard appears to be a good program also and is recommended by
several other sites. You can check it here:
http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Brooks" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] search-space.com taking over IE


Hopefully someone can help me with this problem.

I have a client with ME on her computer. It is running great except her home
page in IE keeps changing to 'search-space.com'. I have updated and ran both
Ad-aware6 and Spybot. I also ran 'RegSeeker' to search for anything to do
with search-space and deleted everything it found. I also ran the clean
registry part of RegSeeker and deleted everything it found as well. I ran
Window Washer and BHO Demom too. I then reinstalled IE6 with sp1. When I
reboot, and then open IE it opens to Google (her home page) and then after a
few minutes, switches back to search-space.com.

I don't know what else to try. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have a 'Happy Holiday Season'.

Jack Brooks

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