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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: Michael Painter
  • Date: Mon Jul 12 00:27:49 2004 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michel Py" <[email protected]>
To: "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
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