mud Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 i have been off line a few days trying unsucessfully to get rid of a spyware trojan virus called CWS or coolwebshredder .eventually had to reformat my pc lost lots of contacts.the only spyware that stopped it was spykiller but i couldnt stop it from reappearing on boot up.gutted.i tried lots of anti spyware programs ,ad aware,spy doctor,microsofts own,counter spy etc etc but they did nowt or very little.what is the best program to stop em getting in in the first place.i have just installed norton internet security as a stop gap but when i was hacked i was running norton full system works.cheers martin Quote
Major Stare Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 I just tried the free edition of SpyKiller2005. It found 29 infected files, but wants £39.99 to remove me Anyone know where i can get a better edition for FA? Quote
Gromit Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 Have you tried Spysweeper Its free to download and you get 1 free update (straight away) to it. Its not bad considering its free and it does find the odd bit of spyware. Quote
boris Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 IMHO the best set-up to have is 'ad-aware' run alongside AVG. they are both free as a bird and updates are the same, i know alot of very geeky I.T. students and they all use this pairing. it works a treat for me to. i run ad-aware every few days and usually do an AVG scan every day. i leave my laptop on pretty much all the time and its worked for me in the last few months HTH **edit to add norton is a very bad bit of software that has numerous holes in it and microsoft are useless in every respect Quote
scruffythefirst Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 Your main problem will be with Internet Explorer. Get rid of it if you can and use Mozilla Firefox which is free, instead. I used to get 50 or so spyware and virus' a week when I used IE. Now I get none, and have had none since I started using Firefox. I still use Outlook Express for mail, but never open anything that could be potentially dodgy. I have norton and the crappy firewall that came with my adsl router as well, but I don't think norton really does anything usefull. Quote
boris Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 a very good point made by 'scruffythefirst' there, IE has so many holes in it, the spyware has a field day! Mozilla is alot better that IE for absolutely everything, the best feature is you can open alot of tabs in the same window instead of having multiple IE windows open, much easier to browse with Quote
Peter Cox Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 2p... Both the spyware I've tried (Spybot to name one) have "encouraged" me to delete more than I should, resulting in all kinds of registry errors, which no Windows restore will help with (invariably a full XP reinstall occurs). I'm not geeky enough to understand what each suggested file is for. After all, I don't code for a living, my work is measuring software quality. Admittedly, I haven't tried Adaware and I am still using Microshaft products. Quote
Bob Green Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 IMHO the best set-up to have is 'Ad-Aware SE' run alongside AVG. they are both free as a bird and updates are the same, I know alot of very geeky I.T. students and they all use this pairing. it works a treat for me to. Both these work fine for me. I have had no problems since installing them. Quote
Richgm Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 a very good point made by 'scruffythefirst' there, IE has so many holes in it, the spyware has a field day! Mozilla is alot better that IE for absolutely everything, the best feature is you can open alot of tabs in the same window instead of having multiple IE windows open, much easier to browse with Firefox has holes in it too. Just their in different places to IE. Quote
mud Posted April 26, 2005 Author Posted April 26, 2005 just downloaded adaware se and AVG so i'll give that a go .i tried the CWS shredder but it didn't fix it completely.in the end i had no idea what the virus/spyware was but it was in the registry and using all of my CPU for its own work making the machine ******g slow ie 3 1/2 hrs for a scan . Quote
scruffythefirst Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 Firefox has holes in it too. Just their in different places to IE. Yup, and guess who botheres to exploit them? Its not profitable for the spammers / junk - emailers etc cos the majority use IE. As Darwin (or some other darwinist) pointed out its better to be the minority. Quote
Peter Cox Posted April 27, 2005 Posted April 27, 2005 As Darwin (or some other darwinist) pointed out its better to be the minority. ...unless, that is, you face extinction. Quote
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