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by lord foul

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Hi Y'all.
I have virus scanned my pc w/ Norton and it has found 2 adware programs installed which it cannot delete, it asks me to delete it manually.
One of them, hh.htt,i cannot delete manually. I click it and shift+delete, it dissapears only to reapper in the directory list? I even tried deleting it from the command prompt to no avail. Help!
The other adware it has found, tips.ini, i cant find through a directory listing, i even unhid hidden files and i still cant find it. Double help!

How can i delete these files...

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by joseph moore

Ok. Norton is not powerful enough to get rid of this spyware. This one is part of the CoolWebSearch spyware strain.
Technically, the one you have is Variant 26, according to the CWS Chronicles at merijn.org site:
http://merijn.org
Go to the site, and read the News And Updates for Jan 24, 2004. He is talking about your version.
On this site is the tool CWShredder, which can delete all CWS variants EXCEPT, as luck would have it, yours! I read in a post that your specific version (with the tips.ini and hh.htt files) is the ONE that CWShredder cannot stop (since the spyware actively ATTACKS CWShreddder!)
So, in the news for today, Merijn posted a way to get rid of it.
You run "PepiMK's CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller removal tool", reboot, THEN run the latest CWShredder.
Just go to the Merijn page (from the link I posted above), and read the little news clip for download details.
hope this helps

by lord foul

Yes! all of your information has been invaluable! I downloaded both fixes and ran them as suggested. Once i went on line all problems ceased and the registry was cleansed as well. I still have that bloody hh.htt file howevewr (still wont delete)the antivirus software checks it as clean and all runs well so thankyou! i have bookmarked the merijn.org site as well! Cheers!

by malkeetdxb

What i would do in such a situtation
is simply one that is file in the directory,
i will use deltree command from dos to
solve the purpose

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