happy to report that it has been almost 2 days since my system has been bothered and hjt shows nothing unusual. by jove, we may have just gotten rid of it (knocking furiously on wood). if not, i'll...

a friend of mine suggested mozilla. he said he had a lot of luck finding all the variations with it, but still had to keep going in manually to delete them and rebooting in safe mode and cleaning...

interestingly, i posted a reply last night and it never showed up on this site. did the virus eat it? i swear, this virus seems to change all the time. now it's changing the size/location of new...

thanks. i bookmarked the link and when it comes back, i'll be sure to attempt those fixes, particularly the stuff about finding the really hidden file. in the meantime, the virus deleted our...

it came back in a particularly potent form yesterday so that immediately after running all of the programs in my arsenal, it was back.
i'm almost ready to scrap the systems and do a complete...

i did as instructed, but when i went to the apm to delete the dll from hijack, i didn't see it in the list. there were 99 or so in that list. is there a way to learn if any of the others are...

like clockwork, it is back again. here's today's log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 5:31:05 PM, on 6/26/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer...

sorry, i didn't see the last reply from crunchie. here's my very latest log

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 2:04:18 PM, on 6/25/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)...

the virus keeps coming back, usually within 12 hours of cleaning up my system. i just ran cwshredder and hjt and cleaned the usual things, so those won't look like i have anything remaining, but...

here's my latest hjt log. those two did manage to be deleted. i also tried to re-run some of the other programs.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 1:34:28 PM, on 6/24/2004...

i tried to remove them and they were still there when i immediately ran hjt again.

also, i tried to delete the temp\sp.html files from hjt, but they always come right back.

here are the programs i currently have downloaded to try to get rid of this thing: hjt, aboutbuster,...

i managed to get beta-fix and ran it. the first thing that came up was a window telling me that notepad.exe could not be found. i am to type in the exectuable file to be used instead, and it gives...

latest hjt log
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 9:25:04 AM, on 6/23/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running...

is there a way to tell if the virus is still lingering or hiding out in my system?

most of the programs can't catch all of this one. i'm going to give you a thread. in it is a specific set of instructions that may help some. try it and see if it works for you. my system is...

we're in the same boat. this is a version of the coolwebsearch virus. i'm hoping to get help for the same problem, so you might want to keep an eye on that thread as well as this one.

i got this tip from thread5531

http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5531.html

it had an added step of downloading TheKillbox and looking for a hidden filename. perhaps this will help you. ...

i tried to download the beta fix as suggested, but got a message that the file is corrupt and the download was unsuccessful. this also happened when i tried to download spywareblaster. this is a...

also, for what it's worth, the computer is a compaq presario, about a month old. the problem with the cws/about:blank virus has been happening for about 4 days now, and i don't know what started it....

i am hoping that someone here can help me. my computer has been repeatedly infected with cws.searchx virus, resulting in a hijacked homepage to about:blank and popups for spyware and other things. ...