HijackThis and CWShredder update Nov. 9th

[YK]

HijackThis and CWShredder updated to detect/remove new hijacker
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Read about CWS:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

[YoKenny]

YK wrote:
> HijackThis and CWShredder updated to detect/remove new hijacker
> http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
>
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
>
> Read about CWS:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it detects
any "malware" sites it monitors.

[Robin T Cox]

"YoKenny" <YKnot@home.invalid> wrote in
news:WOHrb.3739$HoK.2125@news01.bloor.is.net.cable .rogers.com:

> Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it
> detects any "malware" sites it monitors.
>
>

If you use SpywareBlaster, you can ensure that you have a hosts file backup
by using Tools/Hosts Safe...
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

[Daemon]

> Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it
detects
> any "malware" sites it monitors.
>

Hi YoKenny

You are absolutely right - noticed that myself and told Merijn. He is
looking into it.

[YoKenny]

Daemon wrote:
>> Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it
>> detects any "malware" sites it monitors.
>
> Hi YoKenny
>
> You are absolutely right - noticed that myself and told Merijn. He is
> looking into it.

I downloaded the update V1.31.0 but it still deletes it. There is a topic
in the DSLREPORTS forum about this.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...ty,1~mode=flat

[YoKenny]

Daemon wrote:
>> Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it
>> detects any "malware" sites it monitors.
>
> Hi YoKenny
>
> You are absolutely right - noticed that myself and told Merijn. He is
> looking into it.

lonny jones openened this topic in SpywareInfo just before I was going to
open a topic about the same thing.
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=16500

I wonder if it has to do with the size of the HOSTS file? Mine is ~600K.

It also claims I do not have the ByteVerifyer patch which is not true as I
have installed that patch.

[YoKenny]

Robin T Cox wrote:
> "YoKenny" wrote:
>> Just noticed that CWShredder blatently deletes the HOSTS file if it
>> detects any "malware" sites it monitors.
>
> If you use SpywareBlaster, you can ensure that you have a hosts file
> backup by using Tools/Hosts Safe...
> http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Thanks for the info. I use HOSTESS to manage the HOSTS file so I quickly
export a new file and am back in business.

[Daemon]

"YoKenny" <YKnot@home.invalid> wrote in message
news:cUZrb.17904$HoK.15482@news01.bloor.is.net.cab le.rogers.com...
>
> I downloaded the update V1.31.0 but it still deletes it. There is a
topic
> in the DSLREPORTS forum about this.
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...ty,1~mode=flat
>

1.32.1 still deletes it also.