Hi,

I'm having a problem opening CWShredder and was wondering if you could help. I'm sure it said the first time that i have a variant of Coolwebsearch but now it doesn't come up and the thing won't load. It said that it was opening under another name but that failed and now all i get is :

Hosts file not present
Found Win.ini file: C:\WINDOWS\win.ini (8029 bytes, A)
Found line in Win.ini: load=
Found line in Win.ini: run=
Found System.ini file: C:\WINDOWS\system.ini (2165 bytes, A)
Found line in System.ini: shell=Explorer.exe

Anyway i thought i'd run Hiijack this and it would be ok, but i can't find anything. My PC is seriously slow and i think i've already deleted everything i can so there's hardly anything there, this is what i've got : (is there anything that looks wierd here? I can't see anything. Oh, i've ran AVG, Spybot and Ad-Aware too but they don't get anything apart from a DSO exploit now and then in Spybot, maybe that's it actually, because it keeps returning.)

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 07:33:54, on 26/06/2004
Platform: Windows ME (Win9x 4.90.3000)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\GRISOFT\AVG6\AVGSERV9.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\SYGATE\SPF\SMC.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RNAAPP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TAPISRV.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CNXDSLTB.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\LOADQM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\MIXER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDHELP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WMIEXE.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSN MESSENGER\MSNMSGR.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\HIJACKTHIS.EXE

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Karoo
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = www.karoo.co.uk:8080
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHELPER.DLL
O2 - BHO: CleanMyPC Popup Blocker - {7A9BC6B1-7F27-47c6-A66D-13582E81E537} - C:\PROGRAM FILES\CLEANMYPC POPUP BLOCKER\CLEANBHO.DLL
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSDXM.OCX
O3 - Toolbar: CleanMyPC Toolbar - {04164EC4-1E48-4279-818E-3721931E7636} - C:\PROGRAM FILES\CLEANMYPC POPUP BLOCKER\CLEANBAR.DLL
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TaskMonitor] C:\WINDOWS\taskmon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SystemTray] SysTray.Exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CnxDslTaskBar] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CnxDslTb.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SmcService] C:\PROGRA~1\SYGATE\SPF\SMC.EXE -startgui
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadQM] loadqm.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [C-Media Mixer] Mixer.exe /startup
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [SchedulingAgent] mstask.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [Avgserv9.exe] C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVG6\Avgserv9.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [SmcService] C:\PROGRAM FILES\SYGATE\SPF\SMC.EXE
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpySweeper] C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe /0
O14 - IERESET.INF: START_PAGE_URL=http://www.karoo.co.uk/
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - https://download.macromedia.com/pub/...sh/swflash.cab



I've already searched through some threads here but the problem seems to be different, or a variation/mutation of the same thing. Just one thing i don't get :

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =

Why is this running twice all the time?

Any help with these two things would be brilliant, and sorry if this is something that's already been dealt with here before, i guess i'm just looking for a few places in the registry that i can search for this thing.

edit >>> sorry, i forgot to add : i've downloaded smartkiller aswell but when i open the folder and click on it a box comes up and says that it can't be found on my system.