i was wondering if anyone can help me with an adware problem.......
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my homepage is currently set to my own page i made, but since visting a bastard site its been set to about:default - but goes to a search page! i cant make it go to anyhting else for my home,
i know whats doing it as awaware found this ::

ArchiveData(auto-quarantine- 16-05-2004 15-25-21.bckp)
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COOLWEBSEARCH
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obj[0]=RegValue : SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
obj[1]=RegKey : PROTOCOLS\Filter\text/html
obj[2]=RegKey : PROTOCOLS\Filter\text/plain

TRACKING COOKIE
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obj[3]=File : c:\documents and settings\owner\cookies\owner@atdmt[2].txt



ie everythime i load internet explorer this adware thing takes me away from my homepage to thier.
i dfelted the thing using adaware so many times but it keeps coming back!
its not a virus...
it points to the following regestry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{57aoe747-3863-4d20-a811-950c84f1db9b}

here is its description:
Homepage Hijacker. May redirect page to [link to searchv removed]. May also send information back to its parent company.


its called "seekseek" and "cool web search"
is also described as malware
thats all th info i can find on it
how can i safely remove it???
is it ok to fully delete all the above regestry ? i wud presume not??

thanks for any help

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Have you tried installing some of the more popular anti-spyware tools (Adaware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spywareguard, etc)?

I recently had a bad case of spyware/malware that hijacked my Google searches - adding its own search results in the first page. I finally found a fix that was a utility specifically created for it. I will look for this tool to see if it was for cool web search.

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I just wasted a couple of hours fighting spyware. Found that notepad.exe had been hijacked...thanks to my firewall that didn't like notepad.exe trying to access systemredirect.com. A look inside the bogus notepad.exe with a hex editor found traces of it trying to download an app from 217.116.233.191.

Damn bastards...here's a good link for helpful downloads, forums and general info.

http://spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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One bit of advice is not to use Internet Explorer or Outlook EVER AGAIN! Do yourself a favour and go over to Mozilla and download Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.6 for free. They are much more protected from Spyware than most of their competition.

Rob