[72438] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Mon Jul 12 10:42:31 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:41:54 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Gregh" <chows@ozemail.com.au>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 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.