Problem solved (was Everyone who can HELP please read!)

[tesco samoa]

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=news

Go to the bottom of the page...

[Ragnarok]

My mom just had this on her PC at home, or at least something similar.

All I had to do was run ad-aware, remove all of that junk (she had 316 items ) and then in the start menu/programs there was an item there called search something and I just ran the uninstaller for that, then went to my computer/c:/program files and deleted the rest of the files related to that. It is now gone. Hope that helps.

[Lord_Shleepy]

If you can find files from which this evil is spawned...shudders...and wish to avoid another infection...you could always try overwriting them with empty/rubbish files to...hopefully...confuse any future reinstall attempts.

Hope you kill it good...

[Atrocities]

Also if your running XP be sure to turn off the auto back up function. Viruses love to hid there. Run your anti virus, and or buy pest patrol and run that as well.

Then reboot and see if it is gone.

[President_Elect_Shang]

First Tesco's suggestion as his page talked about the very same thing that I am trying to shake. If you are not sure what I am trying to kill click on Tesco's link in his first post on this thread. There you will see CoolWWWSearch and it is far worse than anything I have fought so far.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Latest update: So Spybot Search and Destroy says that I have the CoolWWWSearch on my computer, but when I run the miniremoval that is on a link below it says that I do not. Ideas?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you should be able to sue someone about this.