RE: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cool Web Search

From: Todd Towles (toddtowles_at_brookshires.com)
Date: 08/02/04

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    To: <ald2003@users.sourceforge.net>, "'JacK'" <jack@websecurite.org>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:23:52 -0500
    
    

    You don't seriously think that one person that has a real job to do can sit
    around all today (not do his job) and write an automatic tool to remove Cool
    Web Search do you?

    I have work to do..and to tell you the true, CWS isn't a problem for me? Why
    because we have real network security. Desktop security is the last line of
    defense. Multi-tier security will stop most spyware at the gate and it will
    never get to you.

    I watched one student try to create a program to remove CWS and he did a
    very good job, but he couldn't keep up. I can't blame him for that. He was
    fighting a team of programmers that were getting paid to write this junk all
    day long. Some system admin spending three hours on a program will help
    everyone that day with one variant..but will be useless when a new variant
    comes out.

    Plus - using some tool that doesn't completely remove this spyware could
    give people false protect. Thinking their system is clean - because they ran
    program X - but it is still e-mailing information.

    There needs to be a joining of Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware, but spyware is
    faster spreading and harder to remove then most viruses. Why do you think AV
    companies stay out of the spyware game?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com
    [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Aditya, ALD
    [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]
    Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:41 AM
    To: Todd Towles; 'JacK'; full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    Subject: RE: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cool Web Search

    > We are all computer people - fixing one computer is easy but could take 4
    > hours - not very helpful on a mass scale. We pay for point and click, why
    > shouldn't we get it? ;)

    the sweet word over here is automation even if one computer takes 4 hours to
    clean but if can find a way to do that and automate you have proved your
    worth to your employer and that is what your employer is paying you for...
    if we dont get point and click then we make it point and click and not buy
    anything in this case

    -aditya

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