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CWS.Searchx

Overview

Summary

 Part of the CWS family. Uses the pluggable MIME filter of IE: creates a unique Class ID and includes this CLSID in a IE MIME filters, text/plain.

Category

 Hijacker: Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.

 

Origins

 

Group

 CoolWebSearch.com

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Date of Origin

 July, 2005
 

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

 Follow these steps to remove CWS.Searchx from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

 

Unregister DLLs:

Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:



Clean Registry:

Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:



Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:



Restore Settings:

After following the instructions above, you will still need to restore your original settings and prevent this from happening again.
 
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