http://www.coolwebsearch.com
 

Randomly, whenever I click on a link this site pops up, I have to hit the back button then click the link anain, and the real link opens up fine, I have run ad-aware, and it found nothing, has anyone else ever had this problem?
~Crack

I have a similar problem... :(

When I use my laptop at home and try to go to any search site (google, yahoo, altavista, etc) I got redirected to justtemplates.com. This doesn't happen when the laptop is connected to the network at work...

It happens with every browser (IE, Mozilla)...

Tried to run Ad-aware and Spybot, but no success...

Any ideas???

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...e-nav-12464424

to remove:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/c...tml#cwshredder

Did some search on http://www.spywareinfo.com/ and I managed to fix the problem... :)

Thanx for the link Holo!

Yeah, fixed it too, thanks Holo, you non-nazi...um..uh.. helper-guy!

I removed the loopback IP address from the HOSTS file in the windows/system directory to solve the problem. Its the result of a trojan that hijacks Google and Yahoo searches.

Ha ha, I wish I knew that before. I formatted a few months ago due to the hijacked Google/Yahoo search problem. I looked EVERYWHERE and noone had the answer, not even Microsoft, Symantec, or any ad-removing services. I'll keep that in mind if it happens again.

-Lasereth

Yeah, the bloody trojan is sitting on your PC and waits for an HTTP request to come back over the loopback IP for google.com or yahoo.com. Under those instances, it inserts its BS into the search results and hijacks the user.

Sucks. www.coolwebsearch.com has some information on it and denies all prior knowledge. Pretty shady ... I don't buy it at all. Why would someone write a trojan to benefit this crappy little search engine unless they were directly involved with it in the first place?
Goes to show why search engines should NOT have affiliate programs and such...

http://coolwebsearch.com/security/

CWSshreader... that's the utility.

excellent