After cleaning CWS trojan - can't find notepad anymore

[Glide]

Hello Everyone,

I recently cleaned a CWS trojan from a friend's computer (difficult to say the least) and I thought that everything was OK.

However, my buddy called me to tell me that his notepad was missing. I'm not sure what happened. Any thoughts?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

--Glide

[BlackDiamondJr]

This has been a common occurence recently.
Several variants of the CoolWebSearch trojan are overwriting Windows system files with copies of the trojan itself, reinstalling it whenever this infected file is called by Windows.

See THIS (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/winfiles.html) for the solution to that problem.

[MasterMind]

Nice link Bd. Thanks! :)