How to remove a virus that establishes its home page for internet explorer

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Tim Leach

During a browsing trip two nights ago I lost msn.com as
my home page to this address:
res://mshp.dll/index.html#10213

I followed the internet options path of instructions
several times but msn.com never stays as the home page
address. This other address brings up a search engine.

I have also gone into the task manager/processes but
can't identify a match to end the virus process.

I have also looked into msconfig/startup to see if there
was a match. Couldn't find anything.

Any ideas?
 
Tim Leach said:
During a browsing trip two nights ago I lost msn.com as
my home page to this address:
res://mshp.dll/index.html#10213

I followed the internet options path of instructions
several times but msn.com never stays as the home page
address. This other address brings up a search engine.

I have also gone into the task manager/processes but
can't identify a match to end the virus process.

I have also looked into msconfig/startup to see if there
was a match. Couldn't find anything.

Any ideas?
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mshp.dll = coolwebsearch trojan
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
Run the "Cool Web Shredder"
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
Ensure all instances of IE & OE are closed, hit the executable and
follow the prompts.
See also:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11139

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