[40337] in bugtraq
Re: CastleCops ramps up fight against CoolWebSearch/HomeSearch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Times Enemy)
Fri Sep 16 14:49:01 2005
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:17:35 -0700
From: Times Enemy <times@krr.org>
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To: Paul Laudanski <zx@castlecops.com>
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Greetings.
I am not professionally involved with this, merely curious, which is my
excuse for my current ignorance in this area.
Does the Microsoft (Giant) Antispyware application utilize the CasteCops
list(s) of BHOs?
Up front, i am being lame and not rtfm'ing/researching this myself.
.times enemy
Paul Laudanski wrote:
>CastleCops keeps and maintains various databases on malware and legitimate
>items for browser helpers objects, toolbars, startups, services, and
>activex objects.
>
>Thanks to the collaboration of many Team CastleCops Expert members, CC is
>frequently among the first to indentify and analyze a new emerging pest,
>and hence to add information on its components to the various Lists. We
>were for example the first to spot and categorize a new BHO co-responsible
>for an all new version of SpySheriff/PsGuard/SmitFraud, one of the most
>insidious and prevalent pests around:
>
>http://castlecops.com/tk6387-hp_tmp_random_char_or_digit.html
>
>CastleCops is also in progress of entering all BHOs pertaining to the
>notorious CoolWebSearch/HomeSearch parasite variant to its CLSID database
>list. That information is used to power publicly accessible applications
>such as (in addition to researcher based utilities):
>
>BHODemon - http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
>BHOList - http://merijn.org/downloads.html
>
>The BHO database in its entirety is made available to the public here:
>
>http://castlecops.com/CLSID.html
>
>Source:
>http://castlecops.com/a6249-CastleCops_ramps_up_fight_against_CoolWebSearch_HomeSearch.html
>http://castlecops.com/article-6249-nested-0-0.html
>
>
