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CWShredder 1.56.3 Update

Right on the money Crystal! Yep, same result.

reply to dp
CS....I followed your verification steps.... Start > Run > msconfig > Startup > ....made a change and then Exit Without Restarting....I then ran CWS v. 1.56.3 and nothing was found.

OS= Win 98 SE all MS Critical updates installed.

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said by Sparrow:

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I will appreciate if a few other people would verify this by checking a new entry in Start > Run > msconfig > Startup > Exit Without Restarting, and then running CWShredder to see if it picks up the entry as CWS.Msconfig

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You can also "uncheck" one of the items and "Exit without restart," which will still change the Edit String in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

Checking or unchecking an item doesn't matter, and should produce the same result. I get the same results from either scenario.

After running a "test scan" with CWShredder, you can "check" the item again in msconfig if you want it running at startup.
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said by Sparrow:

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I will appreciate if a few other people would verify this by checking a new entry in Start > Run > msconfig > Startup > Exit Without Restarting, and then running CWShredder to see if it picks up the entry as CWS.Msconfig

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reply to Sparrow

hmm, so much for the XP theory

I thought the same thing, dp . Let's wait for a few more checks.

Apparently the only thing it is doing is removing the entry from the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run;
but if a user makes a change to the msconfig startup list, and runs CWShredder after the change, it will not take effect.

It's just one of those little bugs that really bugs me!
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Anyone else interested in trying to duplicate what Crystal Sky has posted at »CWShredder 1.56.3 Update
The more input the better
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said by dp:

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hmm, so much for the XP theory

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said by boblandy2:

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doesn't that indicate a stronger likelihood that Sparrow is on the right trail

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then i misunderstood. i thought you were saying that her xp theory was not valid
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I sent Merijn a link to this thread the day I started it, so he can keep tabs here.

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Did ya'll know that Merijn has his hands full with real threats to contend with? Like the new variant we don't have a fix for yet?

Plus, he does have a life

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About me
I am a student from the Netherlands that codes in his free time, and especially CWShredder and HijackThis have become quite popular around here. You can download those here, as well as some other apps I wrote.

If you just need help with some piece of (suspected) spyware/foistware, or want someone to take a look at your HijackThis logfile, you are very welcome on the SpywareInfo forums.

If you would like to take a look at my old Geocities page, which has more text, some rants, howtos and more interesting stuff to read, visit
»www.geocities.com/merijn_bellekom/new/.
Note that my handle there is Klont. It's still the same guy reading your emails though.

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April 25, 2004:
Tomorrow I'm moving. Last time we moved, our ISP took 3 weeks to setup Internet access, so I'm just posting it here in case I drop off the net for another month.

Suffice it to say I can't reply to emails during the move.

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