Whenever I start up Internet Explorer, on the first attempt to access the web, whether via the address bar or the search button, my system gets a 20 second delay while it trys to access ip 209.92.33.170. This ip address also sometimes passes control to ip 216.65.101.250. Previously, I had the search hijack which redirected all search requests through these links. I removed all registry entries which included these ip addresses, and removed all erroneous entries from the Hosts file. But, this one final glitch still hobbles my use of Internet Explorer. Can anyone tell me what should still be removed to get rid of this? I have tried AdAware, SpyBot and Bazooka but nothing helps. I can provide HijackThis output if requested. Any help would be appreciated.

Try CWShredder - a specific program for removing CoolwebSearch highjacker www.merijn.org Scroll down to 24 Jan 2004 and download the file CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller removaltool then to 19 Jan 2004 for CWShredder. First, update CWShredder then run the removal tool. Then close all browser windows and run CWShredder - click on "Fix". See what effect that has.

Have already tried CWShredder. Did not help. But thanks for response.

jltermarsch If you tried all the above programs you mentioned above...post your hijack log but do it in the virus/security forum and do mention you used those programs....or the post will get deleted.