Help: IE Quicksearch is disabled?

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Brandon

Strangely, now when I try and use the handy IE
quicksearch function (you know, the one where you can
define a shortcut to go to the search engine of your
choice), it doesn't work.

Example: I defined "G" to equal -->
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

I used to be able to type "G cars" and it would
automatically do a google search for Cars. NOW, instead,
it appears to try and open the wensite "http://G cars"
and of course fails.

QUESTIONS:
1) How did my quick search functions get disabled?
2) Is there some .EXE that runs at startup to enable it?

WHAT I TRIED:
1) Scanned for Spyware
2) Ran virus check
3) Looked for "MyWeb" spyware program which hijacks
search functions = nothing there.

HELP! Please reply via email to the address above,
thanks.

Brandon
 
Brandon said:
Strangely, now when I try and use the handy IE
quicksearch function (you know, the one where you can
define a shortcut to go to the search engine of your
choice), it doesn't work.

Example: I defined "G" to equal -->
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

I used to be able to type "G cars" and it would
automatically do a google search for Cars. NOW, instead,
it appears to try and open the wensite "http://G cars"
and of course fails.

QUESTIONS:
1) How did my quick search functions get disabled?
2) Is there some .EXE that runs at startup to enable it?

WHAT I TRIED:
1) Scanned for Spyware
2) Ran virus check
3) Looked for "MyWeb" spyware program which hijacks
search functions = nothing there.

HELP! Please reply via email to the address above,
thanks.

Brandon
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Brandon,
Questions asked here, answered here :-)

"Cool Web Search" Spyware Hijacker -
Info: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
Removal Tool: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Unzip the tool, hit the executable and follow the prompts.
Make sure that all instances of IE and OE are closed.

HTH

--

siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
 
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