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Re: Malware, Adware and Spyware

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Originally Posted by JakeGallagher
My advice is to just reformat...my friend had the same problem and no matter what he did, he couldn't get the popups and all that crap off his system.
I wouldn't do that if I were you. It sounds like you have a varient of CWS, or Cool Web Search, which is notorious for reinstalling itself from a hidden dll after you remove it. You can try using something like CWShredder from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/, or if that doesn't work, download HijackThis (from the same site), and post your logs to the SpywareInfo Forums.

If you read through the SI forums, you will see that they were able to fix some incredibly resilient malware problems.
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