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Re: tvm.exe / poll each.exe / blehdefyreal toolbar


From: petard <petard () freeshell org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 06:44:49 +0000

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:51:06PM -0700, mark wrote:

Anybody know about some trojan(s) that spawn a "tvm.exe" process, a
"poll each.exe" process, inserts a "blehdefyreal" toolbar into IE, and
hijacks the IE homepage to point to allaboutsearching.com? This thing
also opens pop-ups pointing to this page:

http://69.20.62.53/yyy3.html

If the registry entries related to these processes are deleted then they
keep being recreated. 

What is it? And how does one remove it? 

It sounds like CWS.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63391,00.html

After about 4 hours of trying on a client's PC, I was unable to 
remove it and resorted to a reformat/reinstall. It's incredibly 
persistent and probably not worth your time to remove it.

hth,

petard

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