Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

Gregh chows at ozemail.com.au
Mon Jul 12 12:37:31 UTC 2004



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Warren" <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious


>
> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so bad that
> development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its
> developer....Either serious lock down you ie(which with CWS is
> not going to help) or use something other than ie.
>

Are you honestly serious? I came up against it for the first time only about
3 days ago and I got rid of it in 10 minutes! I can see how it would be a
problem for a newbie but it shouldn't be anything more than 10 minutes work
for anyone here with Windows experience.

Greg.




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