CoolWebSearch is a typical adware application, which has intruded upon too many computers in the passing months and even though it has not done real damage, it can still be annoying.

CoolWebSearch Description

CoolWebSearch is a malicious application, which aims to collect information about users and annoy them with constant pop-ups of varying kinds. It can enter your system quite commonly as a drive-by download, which can be picked up in any number of malicious websites. Once it has made an entrance, it will proceed to make changes to your registry. This will allow it to start with your computer and take care of everything it needs. From then on it takes over your browser so that it can proceed to gather information about you. You will see an abundance of pop-ups appearing during browsing and some of them will even take you to pornography sites. For this reason it might be okay to remove this threat as quickly as possible.

How to Remove CoolWebSearch

CoolWebSearch is easily removed if you follow a few simple steps. The first step along the way requires you to download and install a program called Spyware Hunter. Once you have done so, make sure you let the program scan your whole system so that any threats along the way can be localized. From then on, it will proceed to remove these threats and you will find yourself safe. Keep in mind however that this might not always work and you may need to do things the hard way.

For the hard way you need to open the computer in Safe Mode first. From then on you should open the Task Manager, locate all processes, which might be associated with CoolWebSearch and terminate them completely. Once this has been carried out, you should remove its files and clear out your registry.