Jeff: Another good program for the trojan arsenal is called cwshredder. You can find it at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html <http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html> . I use this in tandem with Ad-Aware. There have been situations where Ad-Aware was unable to delete a particular hijack that cwshredder could and visa versa. The cwshredder program is part of an ongoing battle between the writer and the Cool Web Search (thus CWS) people. There is an extensive dialog at the site. Just thought this might help. Thanks -- Mike Ramsour
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RBG7-L] - Somewhat off the subject - Spyware and Hijackers To All, As more and more of my clients are dealing with viruses and spyware I thought the following information would be useful. While researching industry sales data for my Lapinator, Inc business plan I picked up a rather nasty browser hijacker that Ad-Aware could not get rid of. After some research, I found a program called Hijack This ( http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10227352.html <http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10227352.html> ) that identifies all potential hijacking programs on your computer even if they are as yet unidentified by programs like Ad-Aware and Spybot. You have to be careful while using it because it does not discern between good and bad re-directing programs. For example, you could erase a file that autoupdates a program or takes you to on-line help. That said, it was pretty easy to identify the hijacking file as it was conspicuosly devoid of any description. Jeff Ward www.lapinator.com <http://www.lapinator.com>
