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Coolwebsearch.info – new site from the Coolwebsearch family

Myantispyware team March 21, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking

Sunbelt reported about new CWS site – Coolwebsearch.info. This site is an affiliate of Coolwebsearch.com that installs a toolbar which hijacks the home page without a EULA. Run by our Best Friend Ever, Vadmim Praha Whois Data: Fedorov Vadim Praha CZ hali @ volny.cz Fedorov Vadim Praha CZ sp @ prague-sex.com Fedorov Vadim Prtaha 5

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HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing

Myantispyware team January 13, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking

HOSTS file hijacking combined with bank password stealing trojans is one of the more egregious spyware tricks currently being seen. Here’s the scenario. A user is infected with a trojan and other malware that, among other things, changes the HOSTS file so that websites commonly used for online banking are redirected to the spyware pusher/thief’s

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How to remove the Aurora, Nail.exe, Epolvy Hijackers

Myantispyware team January 5, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Malware removal, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Nail.exe is a is a hijacker which means it will intermittently change your Internet Explorer settings / Desktop to the link of it’s author’s sponsors. This program is usually installed through consent, however is sometimes packaged as another product. Aurora.exe is an advertising program by Aurora. This process monitors your browsing habits and distributes the

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How to remove Needupdate (securityerrors) hijacker (uninstall)

Myantispyware team December 20, 2005 5 Comments Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Also you can try the tutorial, if you have got redirect to these domains: dns404.net, needupdate.com, yoursystemupdate.com, systemwarning.com, warningmessage.com, syserrors.com, notfound404.com, updateyoursystem.com, securityerrors.com, hdnsservidce.com, downldboost.com You should to download some programs to aide in our fix :Do Not Run Them now 1. Download smitRem.exe and save to your desktop. Double- click it to extract it

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Hijack Removal “How to”

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Any of the products below will remove most hijackers completely, unless it is one which has just started spreading. Spybot S&D [recommended] Ad-aware If you have a hijack that is not fixed by any of these products, you may use these solutions below that I have gathered after helping to fix these same problems countless

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Browser Hijacking

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking

There is a despicable trend that is becoming more and more common wherein the browser settings of web surfers are being hijacked forcibly by malicious web sites and software which modifies your default start and search pages. Sometimes internet shortcuts will be added to your favorites folder without asking you. The purpose of this is

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How to remove CWS Hijacker

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

This is old news, but and now many peoples have a question: “How to remove CWS Hijacker from my pc ?“. Read below. CWS is a trojan that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one of several different web sites (see below). Most of these web sites appear to have an affiliate relationship

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