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Don’t get excited just yet. It might be what you’re seeing in the registry is a good thing.

I run ME too, and just the other day I made an updated "nasties" list, which is/are unwanted cookies.

Go into Tools>Internet Options>Security, highlight "Restricted Sites", then click on "sites" and hopefully there is the list of what you speak.

If you find the list in the “trusted sites”, then of course that’s something else again and then you can worry.

My point is that if you're running Adaware or SpyBot or something similar it might very well be they put them there. You can individually place unwanted sites there as well, as I and others do, and then save them, (which someone started referring to as "nasties").

Here's an example of a “good thing”, the registry address of one site example I have in my restricted list:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\zonadialer.com]

Thanks! :) That's exactly what's going on. I was doing further checking all night long, and the list in my registry is the same as the list in my restricted sites.

Now, I know that my browser was hijacked by something called CoolWebSearch.com, along with a few more. I'm trying to make absolutely certain that I don't have a hidden keylogger somewhere in my computer.

When this happened late Saturday night, my Ad-aware flashed on and turned to the German language, then shutdown, along with my spybot, my anti-virus software, and my firewall, so whatever it was, it got me good. What a nightmare!

I uninstalled and reinstalled all of my programs, and since then, hackers have been trying to get in, BIG time. My firewall is showing a lot of the same IP addresses trying to get into my computer. Everytime I scan with my Ad-aware, spybot, etc., etc., I have a ton of junk to remove, and my computer is running very slow, so I think that there is still something there.

Thanks to everyone! :) I'll stop by when I get an answer on my HijackThis log that I left at 2 different sites.