Hijacked Google.

j2buttonsw | 15:45 Sat 03rd Jan 2004 | Technology

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Whenever I click on a link from a google.com search it takes me to another search engine site (such as searchclub.ws, coolwebsearch.com, cool-search.ws) rather than the link destination. I have run the latest Adaware without fixing it. Any ideas, as it is beginning to get on my nerves? Thanks.

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lisaj

yep... check out this link : http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/CoolWebSearch.html
. I've also seen it tied to a trojan, so check out this too : http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc
/data/trojan.myss.b.html

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Cheers lisaj, CWSshredder seems to have fixed it.

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