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mywebsearch (I think) removal

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electricpete

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Oct 1, 2002
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I have Windows ME. Searches by the following engines come up clean:
Webroot Spysweeper
C.A. eTrust
Spybot S&D
Lavasoft Adaware.

But when I run Panda Activescan (paid scan from the web), it identifies one entry that it calls a "hacking tool". Panda mouseover help for hacking tool is "tools to help someone take over your computer" Then in the log file it shows me:

Potentially unwanted tool:application/mywebsearch No disinfected HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{147A976E-EEE1-4377-8EA7-4716E4CDD239}
But it doesn't get rid of the file.

My two questions:
1 - Is it really Mywebsearch?
2 - Why didn't the others see it?
3 - Most important - how do I get rid of it? (there is no uninstall for mywebsearch in my uninstall menu).
 
It's probably a leftover nothing toworry about!


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to download HijackThis. Click scan and save a logfile, then post it here so
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as most of the files are legitimate.





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