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RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious


From: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:41:54 -0700


William Warren wrote:
coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so
bad that development of cws shredder has been
abandoned by its developer....

The smart computer does not exist (if it did, we would not have a job,
would we? ;-)

Either serious lock down you ie (which with CWS is
not going to help) or use something other than ie.

No argument here.


Gregh wrote:
Are you honestly serious? I came up against it for
the first time only about 3 days ago and I got rid
of it in 10 minutes! I can see how it would be a
problem for a newbie but it shouldn't be anything
more than 10 minutes work for anyone here with
Windows experience.

There are dozen of variants, obviously you've seen only one.

Michel.


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