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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: Rubens Kuhl Jr.
  • Date: Mon Jul 12 00:46:31 2004 
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" <[email protected]>
To: "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
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.