A
Andries
My system survived the latest CWS infection because I use
a layered defence: When MS Antispy failed, Spybot Search
and Destroy picked it up and removed it faultlessly.
I run Norton AntiVirus, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and
Destroy, Spyware Blaster, SpywareGuard, Bazooka, MS
AntiSpy -- all of them together and without any
conflicts -- plus a 45 000 line allmost dupeless HOSTS
file blocking almost all banner and ad servers and all
known malware sites, including about 1500 sites infected
with CWS. My eDexter pacfile contains about 300 lines.
Yet it got me. It's that damn outdated javascript.
CWS exploits shortcomings in all javascript versions
below version 3810. That's what it feeds on and that's
mainly how it survives and spreads. By not updating the
javascript of all users Microsoft is feeding a monster
that criples its own operating system.
What is Microsoft, spywarehunters, privacy protectors
and legislators doing to wipe this scum off the internet?
The company paying the authors of CWS is well known and
the sites subscribing to the CWS "service" is published
on several anti-malware sites. The owners subscribing to
the CWS "service" knows exactly how CWS works and pay
willing for it. The money trial is about a mile wide.
* They blatantly invade your privacy and allow code to be
installed on your computer without your permission.
That's illegal and punishable, both in terms of the
people who originate and spread the code and in terms of
the people who finance the illegal operation and share
the illegal profits.
* The code causes damage and severely disrupts normal
functioning of Windows systems. That's illegal and
punishable.
Yet nobody is doing anything in terms of legal action.
I repeat. Check which javascript version you are running
on your machine.
Click Start
Click Run
Enter the following:
cmd jview
Click OK.
The last four digits in the Version line indicates the
java version.
If it's anything below 3810 scream.
You're one of the Windows owners Microsoft is leaving up
the creek without a paddle.
a layered defence: When MS Antispy failed, Spybot Search
and Destroy picked it up and removed it faultlessly.
I run Norton AntiVirus, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and
Destroy, Spyware Blaster, SpywareGuard, Bazooka, MS
AntiSpy -- all of them together and without any
conflicts -- plus a 45 000 line allmost dupeless HOSTS
file blocking almost all banner and ad servers and all
known malware sites, including about 1500 sites infected
with CWS. My eDexter pacfile contains about 300 lines.
Yet it got me. It's that damn outdated javascript.
CWS exploits shortcomings in all javascript versions
below version 3810. That's what it feeds on and that's
mainly how it survives and spreads. By not updating the
javascript of all users Microsoft is feeding a monster
that criples its own operating system.
What is Microsoft, spywarehunters, privacy protectors
and legislators doing to wipe this scum off the internet?
The company paying the authors of CWS is well known and
the sites subscribing to the CWS "service" is published
on several anti-malware sites. The owners subscribing to
the CWS "service" knows exactly how CWS works and pay
willing for it. The money trial is about a mile wide.
* They blatantly invade your privacy and allow code to be
installed on your computer without your permission.
That's illegal and punishable, both in terms of the
people who originate and spread the code and in terms of
the people who finance the illegal operation and share
the illegal profits.
* The code causes damage and severely disrupts normal
functioning of Windows systems. That's illegal and
punishable.
Yet nobody is doing anything in terms of legal action.
I repeat. Check which javascript version you are running
on your machine.
Click Start
Click Run
Enter the following:
cmd jview
Click OK.
The last four digits in the Version line indicates the
java version.
If it's anything below 3810 scream.
You're one of the Windows owners Microsoft is leaving up
the creek without a paddle.