[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by iadom

This is also a cause for concern, the author of CWS shredder is basically throwing in the towel.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...90&postcount=6

From the shredder site:

We are pretty sure now CoolWebSearch is part of a new strain of trojans that have recently been identified that all have one thing in common: they install through the ByteVerify exploit in the MS Java VM and change the IE homepage, search page, search bar, etc.

That exploit is patchable - i.e. if users patched in the first place they wouldn't need tools to remove nasties