Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

Michel Py michel at arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us
Mon Jul 12 14:41:54 UTC 2004


>> William Warren wrote:
>> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so
>> bad that development of cws shredder has been
>> abandoned by its developer....

The smart computer does not exist (if it did, we would not have a job,
would we? ;-)

>> Either serious lock down you ie (which with CWS is
>> not going to help) or use something other than ie.

No argument here.


> Gregh wrote:
> 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.

There are dozen of variants, obviously you've seen only one.

Michel.




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