[72427] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Mon Jul 12 00:35:29 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:34:53 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Michael Painter wrote:
> You're right...it can be a sob to remove. CWShredder
> has worked well for me.
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
First thing I tried after Ad-aware and Spybot, no go :-(
In some cases, the only way out of it is HiJackthis
(http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html) which unfortunately
requires a somehow skilled tech and lots of time, with no guarantee.
I ruled it out for financial reasons: eventually a skilled tech will
indeed be able to clean the machine, but the bottom line is not
favorable in a mid-size or large corporate environment: it takes a lot
less time and money to send a grease monkey reload the machine and send
L2 tech to put back user settings. Not elegant nor smart, but works.
Michel.
