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- CWShredder CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover 2.19 (Windows)
- Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch, the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers from your PC. CWShredder removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of bookmarks mostly to porn Web sites on your desktop, changes your home page without...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Web Browser, Trend Micro CWShredder, CoolWebSearch, CWShredder, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-07-12
- Trend Micro CWShredder 2.19 (Windows)
- Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch â€Â" the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackersâ€Â" from your PC. CWShredder removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of bookmarksâ€Â"mostly to porn Web sitesâ€Â"on your desktop, changes your home page without...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Web Browser, Trend Micro CWShredder, CoolWebSearch, CWShredder, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2005-11-17
- Top spyware applications
- WebRoot Software identified the top spyware applications, according to the data from Spy Audit, a free spyware scanner tool.PurityScan - PurityScan frequently displays pop-up advertisements onto your computer whenever you are online. It induces you to install it by claiming to find and delete pornographic images.n-CASE - (msbb.exe) –...
- Tags: adware program, CoolWebSearch, advertisement, Web
- Blog posts 2004-12-21
- Top spyware applications
- WebRoot Software identified the top spyware applications, according to the data from Spy Audit, a free spyware scanner tool.PurityScan - PurityScan frequently displays pop-up advertisements onto your computer whenever you are online. It induces you to install it by claiming to find and delete pornographic images.n-CASE - (msbb.exe) n-CASE...
- Tags: hiJack, advertisement
- Blog posts 2004-12-21
- Worst spyware queues up
- Worst spyware queues upMS Windows``MS windows: Flawed by Design'' TM-mCoolWebSearchI had a friend who said that they were having "some problems" with their PC. Two long days later, I managed to get CoolWebSearch off. They are now happy Firefox users.Windows Unplugged"Webroot recommends that people install Microsoft security patches,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Construction, CoolWebSearch, CWShredder, Microsoft Internet Explorer, spyware, window, CWS
- Discussion threads 2004-12-21
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- DiamondCS Process Guard Full 3.500 (Windows)
- ProcessGuard protects your system against such a wide variety of attacks.ProcessGuard will stop your firewall and anti-virus programs from being attacked by trojans and viruses. Features: Control application execution. Protect applications from termination. Protect applications from modification. Protect applications from viewing. Block new and changed programs. Protect physical memory....
- Tags: Application, DiamondCS, ProcessGuard, Microsoft Windows, Firewalls, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Workforce Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- Attack of the PDFs
- Less than 24 hours after Adobe shipped a fix for a gaping hole affecting its Reader and Acrobat software, PDF files rigged with malware are beginning to land in e-mail spam filters. The discovery of the active attacks have underlined the need for Windows users to immediately...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Attack, DeepSight Team, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Beyond a shadow of a pornographic doubt, don't rush to judgment
- Have you seen this man? Known only as "Vico," Interpol is apparently looking for him. According to the Register: Interpol says he appears in about 200 photographs of child abuse taken in Vietnam and Cambodia. His face had been "swirled" in the...
- Tags: Declan McCullagh, Web, Interpol, Termination, PC, Story, Computer, No., Productivity, Workforce Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Internet, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- CWShredder 2.19 (Windows)
- CWShredder is a small utility for removing the nasty CoolWebSearch browser hijacker and its ever-changing variants from your hard drive.
- Tags: InterMute, Web Browser, CWShredder, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-06-01
- Spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programs
- Spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programsThanks!Thanks for the heads-up, Suzi.Spywarequake and Malware wipe are both evil spyware/malware themselvesSpywarequake invaded over 30 of my clients computers and they have no phone number on their site and the software is difficult to remove. ZDNET should reprimand them and take...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spam, anti-spyware, SpywareQuake, malware, spamming, IRC
- Discussion threads 2006-04-22
- 180solutions sponsors Yapbrowser and... child porn?
- My head is swimming and I feel ill. I just read the blogs about 180solutions' latest -- Yapbrowser, installed from 180's servers no less, that directs all search requests to child porn sites. And this from a company that has made countless claims of cleaning up their act....
- Tags: Yapbrowser
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- Eliot Spitzer's office files against Scumware company
- As Suzi Turner and Greg Keizer have blogged, Eliot Spitzer's office has file an "affirmation" and a "petition" against the owners and executives of Direct Revenue. Take a moment to read the 75 and 26 page documents and you will be sickened and entertained at the depths to...
- Tags: Ebola, Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- New rogue anti-spyware and SpySheriff clone
- These rogue anti-spyware programs seem to multiply like rabbits. Just 2 days ago I wrote about Spy-Shield, an anti-spware app that installs adware from BestOffersNetwork Then yesterday SunbeltBLOG featured another new rogue anti-spyware app named BraveSentry. The Sunbelt researchers found a domain running exploits and force installing not just one...
- Tags: anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3
- Trend Micro's Anti-Spyware 3 formerly known as InterMute SpySubtract is the established security vendor's latest entry into the PC spyware wars, bolstered by its recent acquisition of leading antispyware developer InterMute. The home version retails for $29.95, with an annual renewal fee of $14.95, and it features better scanning, faster...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Trend Micro Inc., Trend Micro Anti-Spyware, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3, spyware, anti-spyware
- Product reviews 2006-02-28
- Spyware tunnels in on Winamp flaw
- Spyware tunnels in on Winamp flawDarnit.Time to upgrade.CWS tricksThe CoolWebSearch groups are fond of putting up that notice "Site is closed for abuses." when, in fact, the site is alive and well. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ping.ch?ip=008k.comPinging 008k.com [195.225.177.27]:Ping #1: Got reply from 195.225.177.27 in 22ms [TTL=60]devrim@eren.netkýrýlmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawinamp... boooI've always said this...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Digital music, Digital media, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Adding, spyware, Winamp
- Discussion threads 2006-02-03
- Decrease in spyware on the net?
- Live Science reports that according to a study done by computer scientists at the University of Washington, the incidence of spyware on the internet has "significantly declined". The study checked more than 20 million websites including games, news and celebrity sites according to this article. The findings:More 5 percent of...
- Tags: spyware
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- Wimamp exploit used to push spyware
- That didn't take long. The Winamp vulnerability in version 5.12 was announced at Secunia just a few days ago, details here. Note the Secunia advisory says "an exploit is publicly available". Nullsoft released Wimamp 5.13 the same day the exploit was announced, but the spyware pushers saw an opportunity to...
- Tags: Winamp
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- ISPs hosting spyware - who are they?
- Recently I mentioned ISPs hosting spyware and said "Everyone in the anti-spyware community knows who these ISPs are." Now we have a perfect example. It starts with a SANS post today recommending to unblock an IP range they previously recommended blocking. Based on feedback from Intercage customers,...
- Tags: ESThost, Atrivo
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- More super rogue anti-spyware
- Be on the lookout for another new supposed anti-spyware program that might be hijacking desktops any day now. This one is called PestTrap and it's a clone of SpySheriff. SpySheriff was one of the top 10 rogue anti-spyware apps of 2005, coming in at number 2. You can...
- Tags: PestTrap website, Intercage.com, InterCage Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-18
- HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing trojans
- HOSTS file hijacking combined with bank password stealing trojans is one of the more egregious spyware tricks currently being seen. Here's the scenario. A user is infected with a trojan and other malware that, among other things, changes the HOSTS file so that websites commonly used for online banking are...
- Tags: spyware, Internet Service Provider, Layered Technologies Inc., Hosts File
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
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