Bellekom’s chronicle of variants pretty much reads like a horror story. New versions of CWS are released almost every few weeks. Some variants try to cripple CWShredder and other spyware removal tools. The criminals behind it often engage in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against sites that host CWShredder. Merijn believes CoolWebSearch is part of a new strain of trojans that install through the ByteVerify exploit in the MS Java Virtual Machine.įighting CoolWebSearch has become a daunting task. Users began to report significant slowdowns when they typed messages into text boxes. The first modifications weren’t even identified as such, according to Bellekom. Even MSIE 6 Service Pack 2 (beta) couldn’t provide any protection. He is not joking: We run afoul of CWS not too long ago and the only way to remove the sucker was to replace the entire Windows Registry with a previous version. He has tracked CWS and its modifications ever since it first appeared last summer, claiming that it is “the most complex, invisible and devious hijacker” ever programmed. They are too aggressive or too complicated to allow for automated removal.” ![]() I simply do not have the tools to remove the latest variants. His little program has saved me from having to restage many a PC in the past, but now we get the bad news that Merijn is giving up the fight as it’s just too much for him to keep up with:īellekom has just released the latest version of his CWShredder (1.59), the only antidote to the trojan, but warns that his app won’t be updated again: “I have a few bugs to fix, but after that there’s not much left to do. ![]() One of the most useful tools for accomplishing this has been CWShredder from Merijn Bellekom who created the program as a means of automatically removing CWS in all its variants from your system with just the click of your mouse. If I had a dime for every problem system that turned out to have CWS on it I’d be pretty damned wealthy by now. Having CWS on your system is a lesson in pain as it will fill your system with bookmarks to porn sites, adds it’s toolbar to IE without asking your permission, changes your homepage back to CoolWebSearch even if you change it to something else, plus it slows down and destabilizes your PC in general. ![]() If you’re a PC Technician then chances are you’re very familiar with the CoolWebSearch browser hijacker and how hard it can be to rid a system of.
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