CWS.SearchWord

Description: Spyware
Risk Level: High
Date of First Occurence: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Software Developer: CoolWebSearch.com
Brief Info: CWS/SearchWord hijacks IE to idgsearch.com and 2020search.com, installs a BHO named 'Microsoft SearchWord' using the filename SearchWord.dll in the same location as the first version.
Removal: This threat can be removed using "Spyware Terminator"

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Detecting items list:

  1. Files by Name %APPDATA%\SearchWord.dll %APPDATA%\googlems.dll %sysdir%\googlems.dll
  2. Files by CLSID or Name CLSID=79369d5c-2903-4b7a-ade2-d5e0dee14d24

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