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RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: Michel Py
  • Date: Mon Jul 12 00:37:13 2004 
> 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.