[72424] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Sun Jul 11 23:24:59 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:24:19 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Sean Donelan wrote:
> Spyware isn't the best term for what is happening, but it
> is quickly exceeding (or contributing) to all the other
> problems associated with the online (not just Internet) world.
Indeed. Lately, I have not been able to clean a very annoying piece of
crud named "CoolWebSearch". Spybot will not always detect and never
remove; Ad-aware will likely detect but not remove either. None of the
other crapware removers I have tried could clean the machine either.
I have instructed helpdesk not to waste any time with it and
systematically re-image the infected PC :-(
Fortunately, re-imaging a PC is now a matter of minutes.
Michel.
