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Question by sid
Submitted on 4/17/2004
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is this a virus? "http://qwertysearch123.biz/?id=1999" I can't get rid of it and it keeps wiping my favorites. I managed to get rid of a trojan that was messing with my home page, but I still can't get rid of or even find this sucker

Answer by flagmannn
Submitted on 5/3/2004
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I'd love to know too...

Answer by toast
Submitted on 5/18/2004
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I had this problem to, or still have. You have to go to internetoptions in your internet explorer, then delete all internetfiles. It´s important to delete all offlinefiles. then change your startsite and press ok. My problem is that it comes back when I start kazaa lite. If someone could help me, I would be thankful. If you have problems understanding me, please excuse my bad english. I´m german and can only translate the optionnames from german to english and don´t really know how they were called in the english version of ie.

Answer by fbros
Submitted on 5/20/2004
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download the software http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe and try

Answer by cockney mike
Submitted on 9/11/2004
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I have "hijack this" in my pc but it only deletes files not the root fil,its website is down due a continued Denial Of Service attacks. I downloaded tweak now regcleaner it sorted qwerty on its first run. It has not come back since, get it from cnet.com downloads or from tweaknow.com. Tally ho Good hunting.

Answer by Faithdefender
Submitted on 1/16/2005
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This is coolwebsearch spyware causing this.. its a CWS.msconfd.2 viriant that can only be removed if you remove certian Dll's This one crashes CWShredder! oh its getting nasty out there! had a heck of a time removing it,. spybot wouldnt, giant software (ms) tried and was shocked that ad-aware didnt even notice it. Do a search on CWS.msconfd.2 and you will find the dll's that need to be removed, i found if i renamed them and rebooted this was effective. M@

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