CWShredder Creator Calls It Quits > required for IE only

required for IE only

I've never had my PC hijacked either - but I've had to clean up plenty a pc that was trashed with spyware/adware.

That CWS thing was a royal pain - and I was at my wits end, until I found that CWShredder too.
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reply to stet

said by stet:

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I'm assuming this is a tool only needed if you insist on continuing to use IE. I've never had my home page hijacked or other strange hijacking happen with Mozilla.

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reply to kenyg
Same story here CWShredder saved my sanity as I was about too lose it when I was told to try this program & it finally got it off my system.
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reply to stet
You can say that again! IE is the vector for more ActiveX
drive-by download and exploit based malware than anything
else. And CoolWebSearch is the worst of the lot. Where
lop.com was once the most hated name on the Internet, that
is fast being replaced by CoolWebSearch. Hopefully someone
will carry the torch in Merijn's place and continue to
develop this tool, maybe the folks over at Lavasoft or
Patrick Kolla perhaps? But there's two other good defenses
against CWS as well: MVPS/HPGuru's hosts files, and Spyware
Blaster.
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reply to stet
Its been so long since I've used IE that I almost forgot about that sort of thing. Something opened it the other day though, and its homepage was changed to something else.

Eh, whatever. Firefox rules.

reply to stet
Now that CERT is recommending people switch from MSIE, there will be a push by hackers to develop more tools that work on the other browsers.

And they can be developed because those products do have vulnerabilities.

reply to Pz_
Well, as a previous post in this thread pointed out, you're just burying your head in the sand be switching to those other browsers and purporting that that's a way to solve your problems.

Why else would there be products like these »www.nsclean.com/nsclean.html ?

I understand that those browsers are a very small minority of the browsers being used out there, and if they need products like NSclean NOW, just think how bad it would be if they actually became popular.

reply to keith2468
There are already some auto spyware downloads for mozilla. One was called browser enchancer or something. At least I assumed it was spyware (poped up asking me to install something randomly). Of course, you still need to click install, but I think it's juse as dangerous as activex for IE.

reply to Nax1

said by Nax1:

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Well, as a previous post in this thread pointed out, you're just burying your head in the sand be switching to those other browsers and purporting that that's a way to solve your problems.

Why else would there be products like these »www.nsclean.com/nsclean.html ?

I understand that those browsers are a very small minority of the browsers being used out there, and if they need products like NSclean NOW, just think how bad it would be if they actually became popular.

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