CWShredder

A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names).   Spybot S&D tends to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants once they come out.

Download CWShredder - 256 KB (small)

This tool will find and destroy all traces of the CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijacker on your system. This includes:

• Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
• Redirections when mistyping URLs
• Redirections when visiting Google
• Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
• IE start page / search page changing on reboot
• Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn´t add
• Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
• Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
• Unable to change or see certain items in IE Options
• Unable to access IE Options at all
  

There is a variant of the Coolwebsearch trojan spreading that closes several anti-spyware apps when you try to open them including CWShredder.  If this is happening to you, download PepiMK´s CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller removal tool first and run it.   After running it, programs like CWShredder and HijackThis will run properly as well Spybot S&D, Ad-aware.