[72426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Mon Jul 12 00:26:09 2004
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:25:14 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
> 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.
You're right...it can be a sob to remove. CWShredder has worked well for me.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
--Michael