Run CWShredder - recommendable in safe mode.
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html

Also look at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


Toomas



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>


> hello list,
>
> My son's computer is infected with the subject adware. It redirects his home
> page to the Cool Web Search engine and then goes in all different
> directions.
> we have not been able to find anything to completely clean it so we are
> looking at formatting the hdd and re-installing windows XP-home and the
> other applications.
> Before we do that, has anyone successfully purged this evil little devil?
>
> If we must do the format, what is the best adware software to put on before
> we go back onto the internet to prevent this from happening again?
> Thanks for all help in advance, this is a great forum!
>
> Gene Johnson
>
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