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sepia
10-21-2004, 12:14 PM
This is an article which details the variants of the browser hijacker known as CoolWebSearch (CWS). In the last few months, the people behind this name have succeeded in becoming (IMHO) an even bigger nuisance than the now infamous Lop.

The difficulty of removing CWS from a user's system has grown from slightly tricky in the first variant to virtually impossible for the latest few. Some of the variants even used methods of hiding and running themselves that had never been used before in any other spyware strains.
Read More (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html)

ISOSES
10-21-2004, 05:39 PM
i hate badware specially the kind u cant find

sepia
10-22-2004, 06:45 AM
My newest pain, since it's the ONLY page that has ever popped-up in Firefox for me is Vonage. Any webpage I go to that has an ad of their's anywhere on the page? I suddenly get pop-ups until I close and re-open my browser.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Carrie
11-02-2004, 09:54 AM
I just came face to face with this beast Last night.....
Spy Sweeper removed it nicely

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