Hey everyone,

This is my first post. I'm hoping this great site might shed some light on this.

I'm running windows xp with all the updates and patches, along with a linksys router and default xp firewall only. I managed to get the CoolWebsearch Malware on my box and can't seem to shake it.

After reading previous suggestions from this site, I booted in safe mode, ran spybot and adaware and both programs deleted the corresponding CoolWebSearch entries.

All seemed fine and I left my computer on. A few hours later upon return when I clicked IE6 CoolWebSearch was back. I did the scan again and entries were again found.

An hour later the same thing. So I booted in safe mode, ran hijackthis, and deleted all the browser hijacks.

Any ideas? Am I missing a step here? How does it keep coming back?

Thanks for your help all.