A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D tends to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants once they come out.
This tool will find and destroy all traces of the CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijacker on your system. This includes:
- Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
- Redirections when mistyping URLs
- Redirections when visiting Google
- Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
- IE start page/search page changing 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 change or see certain items in Internet Explorer Options
- Unable to access Internet Explorer Options at all
Download: CWShredder 2.1
- Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
- Redirections when mistyping URLs
- Redirections when visiting Google
- Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
- IE start page/search page changing 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 change or see certain items in Internet Explorer Options
- Unable to access Internet Explorer Options at all
Download: CWShredder 2.1