Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The ranks of spyware and adware expand daily, but some take root more often than others. Here are six of the usual suspects.
These spyware and adware mischief-makers have taken root on more than their share of hard disks. Symptoms include performance and compatibility problems, not to mention continuous pop-up invasions.
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Heads up for those who link to or recommend HijackThis, CWShredder, the Coolwebsearch Chronicles, or to any other file at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. Merijn has his own web site now, located at http://www.merijn.org/. All of his files can now be found there.
Here are the most common files accessed on his site.
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
http://www.merijn.org/htlogtutorial.html
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new malware is being distributed that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one of several different web sites, including coolwwwsearch.com, coolwebsearch.com, youfindall.net, ok-search.com, and white-pages.ws. All of these web sites appear to have an affiliate relationship with coolwebsearch.com in which coolwebsearch pays them for for every visitor ...
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