CWShredder CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover
Downloads Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch, the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers from your PC. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of bookmarks mostly to porn Web sites on your desktop...
[June 28, 2006, 0:46]
Spyware Still Hijacking Internet Explorer
News According to anti-spyware company Webroot on Tuesday, spyware program CoolWebSearch self-installs malicious HTML applications and exploits security flaws in IE. For consumers, CoolWebSearch is probably on of the most vicious programs in terms of...
[December 21, 2004, 11:50]
Protection Offered Against ID Theft Keylogger
News On Thursday, it announced it has developed protection against the keylogger responsible, called Srv.SSA-KeyLogger, which was discovered during research into a piece of spyware called CoolWebSearch. Companies and individual Internet users can now...
[August 11, 2005, 15:40]
Bazooka Adware And Spyware Scanner
Downloads Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner search for CoolWebSearch, Gator, GAIN, Bargain Buddy, CommonName, FlashTrack, IPInsight, nCase, SaveNow, and WurldMedia. Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects a multitude of spyware, adware, Trojan horses...
[March 31, 2005, 16:46]
'Massive' Identity Theft Ring Uncovered
News The operation appears to be linked to CoolWebSearch (CWS), a malicious program that hijacks Web searches and disables security settings in the Internet Explorer browser. A security firm claims to have uncovered a huge identity-theft ring that...
[August 8, 2005, 12:40]
Identity Theft Ring Affects At Least 50 Banks
News The data theft was initially reported to be carried out by a modified variant of a spyware application, called CoolWebSearch (CWS), but Sunbelt has now found that the activities are carried out by a separate Trojan, which is downloaded at the same...
[August 8, 2005, 18:30]
Spyware Industry 'raking In Billions'
News It found that a program called "CoolWebSearch", which avoids detection by many anti-spyware tools, was the most widespread "threat" it found. Spyware writers are generating $2bn (£1bn) of revenue annually after capturing 25 percent of the online...
[May 4, 2005, 12:15]
Sacked Worker Blames Porn On Malware
News One of the malicious programs known to inject porn bookmarks is CoolWebSearch, also called CWS or CoolWWWSearch, and it's been around since 2003. A US district judge has upheld a motion to dismiss in the case of hospital respiratory therapist David...
[October 3, 2007, 17:12]
