The latest defense against the new Cool Web Search variants
CoolWebShredder (CWShredder) is a great, free Windows software, being part of the category Security software.
More about CoolWebShredder (CWShredder)
Since the program was added to our catalog in 2005, it has already reached 41,073 downloads, and last week it achieved 27 downloads.The current version of the software is 2.19 and was updated on 12/15/2005. CoolWebShredder (CWShredder) is available for users with the operating system Windows 98 and former versions, and it is available in English. CoolWebShredder (CWShredder) is a not that heavy software that does not require as much free space than many software in the section Security software. It’s a program very heavily used in countries such as United States, Romania, and United Kingdom.
CWShredder finds and destroys traces of CoolWebSearch. CoolWebSearch is a name given to a wide range of different browser hijackers. Though the code is very different between variants, they are all used to redirect users to coolwebsearch.com and other sites affiliated with its operators.
The CoolWebSearch Trojan installs dozens of bookmarks, mostly to porn sites on your desktop; it also adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer and changes your home page without asking. Furthermore, it significantly slows down the performance of your PC, and introduces some modifications which cause Windows to freeze, crash or randomly reboot.
