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Steve Leyndyke

Somehow all of my MSN searches have been re-routed to a
site (http://search.xrenoder.com). This site has some
fairly nasty pop-ups associated with it. How did this
happen in the first place and how can I change IE back to
it's original form?
 
You might try starting up a new search box at the side of
the internet explorer window. At the upper right hand
corner there is a customize button. There you can change
the different search options. I'm not sure how much help
this is, but it's a start.
John
 
Steve said:
Somehow all of my MSN searches have been re-routed to a
site (http://search.xrenoder.com). This site has some
fairly nasty pop-ups associated with it. How did this
happen in the first place and how can I change IE back to
it's original form?
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Browser hijacker parasite CoolWebSearch.
Get and unpack the following and run the CWSredder.exe.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

SpyBot Search and Destroy should remove them.
http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

Ad-Aware is also a good "adware" remover.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Keep these things up to date as new nasties come along just like
viruses/worms.

Get a good HOSTS file to stop theses nasties.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

SpywareBlaster also stops these nasties.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
 
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