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IE 6 Very Slow

Name: Michael
Date: November 29, 2003 at 11:56:27 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 1900/256

Comment:

Hi. whenever i try to oepen a page (usually has alot of links) sometimes they take a very lnog time to open,. and when writing in this message box the message doesnt show up for another 20 seconds or so. any ideas? thanks

Name: Tufenuf
Date: November 29, 2003 at 13:31:18 Pacific

Reply:

Michael, Looks like you may have picked up a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker which can cause such symptoms. Variant 1: CWS.Datanotary - Introduction to Destruction Approx date first sighted: May 27, 2003 Symptoms: Massive IE slowdown, especially when typing text into forms Go to the link below and download and run the CWShredder Tool CWShredder Tool HTH Tufenuf

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Name: Michael
Date: November 29, 2003 at 13:58:16 Pacific

Reply:

hey thanks. it worked :D

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