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Old June 9th, 2004, 11:03 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Cool Search (sort of a search engine) taking over computer

Hi, i searched all over the place, but i didn't find anything.

This software i got it due to downloading an app. key from a key gen website.

Now, this software was installed and everytime a banner or bad page loads it pops up with a common result.

I have used ad-aware, spybot and cwshredder (sp?) on this and nothing. It looks like it is in the registry, but i can't seem to find a way to erase it all.

Can someone help fix this? It is getting annoying because besides it popping this coolsearch thing, it also has a popup window showing up from time to time.

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Old June 9th, 2004, 11:11 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Maybe you should contact the website you got the keygen from. Or contact the people that made the keygen. I'm sure they'll help you with this.
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Try asking about it at the SWI forums at http://forums.spywareinfo.com And somebody will certainly help you, they may have you download some utilites, and email some logs, ect... but they will get the offending program off your computer.

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UPDATE

This is the stupid program, window like that appears on the different website i frequent:



The right hand pane, where it says "sorry, we could not ...."

That is what i am talking about, i can't get rid of it.

Any experience with this?


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try to get your hands on Spy Sweeper or PestPatrol... they're good ones for getting rid of junk like that...
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hijackthis may also work, but be careful on what you remove.
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