Scarecrow Man Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 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.Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Here's the new CWS Download Link - http://cwshredder.net/bin/CWSInstall.exe. Similar to Merjin's version, but most buttons take you to Intermute's Website.They also offer Spy Subtract which is now bundled with CWS here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Do I need this besides A2, Spybot S & D, Spyware Blaster, Adaware, Spyware guard, Norton AV and Personal firewall?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 CoolWebShredder fixes CoolWeb hijacks and all variants. You will only need this if you are infected with a variant of CoolWebShredder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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