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Search Assistant, what are the symptoms?

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edited January 2006 in Spyware & Virus Removal
I decided to run PestPatrol's free scan today for no apparent reason, and it brought up "Search Assistant" on my system, except it is only 1 file in the registry. Furthermore, I don't have any of the symptoms (popups, change in homepage, ect) that everyone else seems to get. I used to have a problem with the Coolwebsearch thing, until I killed it... could this be left over from that?

I downloaded the free PestPatrol scanner so I could go ahead and get rid of it, except the PestPatrol scanner doesn't pick up the file... And I can't seem to update the free version for some reason...

Here is what it said:

Adware "Search Assistant" found in:
Key "hkey_current_user \software\microsoft\search assistant" value "defaultsearchurl" data "http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/q.cgi?q="

Do I really have a problem? What would happen if I delete that one registry key?

Here is my current (totally free as well) setup if it matters:
Avast!
Sygate Firewall
Microsoft AntiSpyware
Spybot
Ad-Aware

Comments

  • SpywareShooterSpywareShooter 127.0.0.1
    edited January 2006
    Please download HijackThis and post a log.
  • fallen851
    edited January 2006
    Actually the update for Pestpatrol just worked, and it killed it sucessfully.

    So instead of doing those long methods of killing Search Assistant, Pestpatrol might work too.
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