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RE: Re: Cool Web Search
From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:23:52 -0500
You don't seriously think that one person that has a real job to do can sit around all today (not do his job) and write an automatic tool to remove Cool Web Search do you? I have work to do..and to tell you the true, CWS isn't a problem for me? Why because we have real network security. Desktop security is the last line of defense. Multi-tier security will stop most spyware at the gate and it will never get to you. I watched one student try to create a program to remove CWS and he did a very good job, but he couldn't keep up. I can't blame him for that. He was fighting a team of programmers that were getting paid to write this junk all day long. Some system admin spending three hours on a program will help everyone that day with one variant..but will be useless when a new variant comes out. Plus - using some tool that doesn't completely remove this spyware could give people false protect. Thinking their system is clean - because they ran program X - but it is still e-mailing information. There needs to be a joining of Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware, but spyware is faster spreading and harder to remove then most viruses. Why do you think AV companies stay out of the spyware game? -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:41 AM To: Todd Towles; 'JacK'; full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: RE: Re: [Full-disclosure] Cool Web Search
We are all computer people - fixing one computer is easy but could take 4 hours - not very helpful on a mass scale. We pay for point and click, why shouldn't we get it? ;)
the sweet word over here is automation even if one computer takes 4 hours to clean but if can find a way to do that and automate you have proved your worth to your employer and that is what your employer is paying you for... if we dont get point and click then we make it point and click and not buy anything in this case -aditya ________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Todd Towles (Aug 02)
- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 02)
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- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Cool Web Search Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (Aug 01)
- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Yaakov Yehudi (Aug 01)
- RE: Re: Cool Web Search Todd Towles (Aug 02)