OT : CWShredder is back!

[Tx2]

[posted here to save spywareinfo.com some bandwidth]

Received in newsletter -

Until last June, Dutch college student Merijn Bellekom was fighting a
one-man war against the most widespread browser hijacker on the web,
CoolWebSearch. His small freeware program CWShredder was the only
program able to detect and successfully remove all known variants of the
CWS hijacker. Not one of the other antispyware or antivirus programs
available on the web was able to keep up with all of the variants of
CWS.

Last June, Merijn called it quits. CWShredder was updated for a final
time and Merijn announced that no more updates would be forthcoming.
Shortly after, he licensed much of the detection rules to X-Block for
use in their X-Cleaner antispyware program.

CWShredder is back. Merijn has sold the source code and rights to
CWShredder to Intermute. They have published an updated version at
cwshredder.net. CWShredder still is a free download and now is being
updated once again on a continuing basis to deal with new variants of
the CWS hijacker.

[link - http://cwshredder.net/bin/CWSInstall.exe]

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Tx2, ([email protected]) said...

CWShredder is back. Merijn has sold the source code and rights to
CWShredder to Intermute.

And that is exactly the problem. CWShredder doesn't look very updated by
now, and the discussion in alt.comp.freeware came to the conclusion,
that CWShredder hasn't really experienced any considerable improvement
since its last update, which had been several months ago. Better wait
and see how it will be developed, before we start crying hooray.

Look at the discussion, beginning with
<[email protected]>


Gabriele Neukam

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