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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: William Warren
  • Date: Mon Jul 12 08:05:58 2004

coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so bad that development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its developer....Either serious lock down you ie(which with CWS is not going to help) or use something other than ie.

Edward B. Dreger wrote:

RKJ> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:43:50 -0300
RKJ> From: Rubens Kuhl Jr.

RKJ> Try booting into safe mode before running software to detect
RKJ> or remove spyware; some of them fight to survive if they are

Also use msconfig to disable non-critical extras.  Some of us
have manually ripped out ActiveX controls and BHOs care of
regedit... but, alas, malware often has made enough registry and
other system changes that the system is left unstable or
inoperable.

CVs archives of { { system file MD5/SHA1 hashes } and { registry
dumps } }, anyone?


Eddy
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