Why would a certain Web site keep appearing on your internet browser and desktop?

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Hi,

my idea is that it's a form a browser-hijack. I suggest you try cwshredder.exe, you can find it at: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html or directly: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

Taken from the website: "The latest and greatest nuisance on the Internet, the browser hijacker that won't stop, the trojan from hell... name it what you want, but fact is that a company naming itself 'Coolwebsearch' (CWS) is producing a quickly growing strain of trojans that exploit a hole in the Microsoft Java VM, and change your homepage.

And by changing your homepage, I mean lodge itself onto your system in almost two dozen different ways, change your start page, search page, search assistant, redirecting you to porn sites from other porn sites or even search engines, popping up porn ads and sometimes even carrying a payload. "

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When that happened to me I had a backdoor trojan and had to wipe my hard drive and re-install.

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