I have had Avast protection for years and I am now getting alot of “about blank” messages when I try to search and “Oops! this page appears broken DNS error”. When I looked this up it says its a new virus or malware that takes over your search engine (?): CoolWWWSearch and HomeOldSP. What do you know about this and shouldnt I be protected w/Avast??? I am happy with Avast so far and maybe this is not a virus but again, do you know anything about this and is there a fix??? Thanks.
cool websearch is some browser/toolbar crap
follow this guide and run the first two programs AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes quick scan http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
post the logs here
If it is CWS then it is the first case I have seen since I completed training ;D
Yes, CWS is quite old by now. I’ve not seen it in many years.