Spyware Detection and Removal - CWShredder

Name: cwshredder.zip
Description: CWShredder - Coolwebsearch Trojan Remover
Version: 1.59.1
Size: 137 KB (139937 bytes)
Developer: Merijn - merijn @ spywareinfo.com
Developer Website: http://www.richardthelionhearted.com/?url=merijn.richardthelionhearted.com
Obtained From: http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Obtained On: 10/4/2004
Requirements: Windows
Purchase Information: Free
Comments: This tool will find and destroy all traces of the CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijacker on your system. This includes:

Redirection to CoolWebSearch related pages
Redirections when mistyping URLs
Redirections when visiting Google
Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
IE start page/search page changin on reboot
Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add
Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
Unable to access antispyware tools or sites

To run the program, simply extract the cwshredder.exe file and run it; there is no further installation process.

The developer's website is mirrored at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. The developer has indicated that the CWShredder project was suspended at this version, 1.59.1

For any additional help with this program or removing CWS, visit:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

For information and documentation on the Coolwebsearch
trojan and its variants, visit:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

For donations to help support CWShredder and other tools provided by the developer, visit:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/donate.html

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