Re: CWS = Crummy Windows Security
From: Mark Tassin (mark.tassin_at_US.NUFARM.COM)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:26:26 -0500 To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
>CWS, CoolWebSearch, is a particularly nasty incarnation of ad-ware.
>Rossano Ferraris (rossano.ferrarisNOSPAM@libero.it) and I have
>collaborated to develop a simple procedure to remove it from an
>NT4-W2K-WXP box.
>CWS is widely discussed on the web, but it's poorly understood and
>procedures to remove it are often lengthy, cumbersome and ineffective.
>Users are sometimes forced to reformat the hard disk to remove it. CWS
>comes in a variety of flavors. This post will only consider the most
>insidious, which involves two components: a shield-DLL and a BHO
>(Browser Helper Object).
Why not simply use CoolWebShredder? Made by the author of Hijack This! It
seems to nail all the CWS variants out there. And does it well I might
add.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Mark Tassin
Network Systems Analyst/DBA
Nufarm Americas Inc.
1333 Burr Ridge Parkway
Burr Ridge, IL 60521
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