[72428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl Jr.)
Mon Jul 12 00:44:38 2004
Reply-To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
To: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:43:50 -0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Try booting into safe mode before running software to detect or remove
spyware; some of them fight to survive if they are running, dunno if it is
the case with CoolWebSearch.
Rubens
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
> 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.
