CoolWebSearch

[Dalton]

Keep an eye out for this new trojan. It's a rather nasty redirecter that intertwines into your system and can be quite difficult to remove.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/

Last time I tried the CoolWebShredder tool, it didn't work; I assume that the build was buggy. Perhaps they've fixed it now.

Watch out for it! I spent the better part of three hours disinfecting my brother's machine.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Just pray they don't make the fucking thing into multiple redundant EXEs that run as services and constantly reregister themselves AND EACH OTHER continuously (which eats up CPU power btw), spy on everything you type into a web form (examples, any and all posts into a webboard, email addys, CREDIT CARD NUMBERS!!), serve shitloads of popup ads, autoinstall a ton of other spyware, use random filenames, attack and attempt to silently End-Task and uninstall any anti-spyware programs and firewalls on the target computer, maybe even replace Winsock.dll, email itself to every email address it can find on your computer while spoofing the sender KLEZ-style, and then act as a DDoS Botnet and Open Email Relay for any asshole with a grudge and a hundred million emails to send...

Impossible? That's what me and my SpywareInfo friends would've said about three quarters of the shit I listed above a year ago! Give it a year or two. Now I've seen spyware that does everything I listed above. Just not all rolled into one.

Yet...