Holy Teh Frikkin Schmit Batman - CoolWebSearch = Ultimate in Spyware
 

This is unreal - basically if you have ever had CoolWebSearch on your PC - panic! Thank the lord i use Firefox..

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050805-5175.html

Re: Holy Teh Frikkin Schmit Batman - CoolWebSearch = Ultimate in Spyware
 

Yeah, I read about this earlier today (on news.com I think.. can't remember now). I'm wondering whether this is legit, or just a ploy to get this unheard-of-before company in the headlines.

I don't doubt that spyware tracks your details and sends it somewhere... that's one of the key purposes of spyware, but I've got a niggling doubt over whether all that they're claiming is really true.

I've yet to see any hard proof of what they're claiming, so I guess that until I see something more concrete, I'm still dubious about their claims.

Re: Holy Teh Frikkin Schmit Batman - CoolWebSearch = Ultimate in Spyware
 

Still a great excuse to get everyone panicing though...

Aint it? :D

Re: Holy Teh Frikkin Schmit Batman - CoolWebSearch = Ultimate in Spyware
 

:rofl: yeah :D

Re: Holy Teh Frikkin Schmit Batman - CoolWebSearch = Ultimate in Spyware
 

A PC at work was infected with CoolWebSearch, I don't know whether it does all of those things listed above but it is certainly a hardcore piece of spyware. 3 hours it took me to rid the PC of it and even now I'm still not sure I got all of it :(