Countering
Spyware Attacks Against Merijn Utilities
All
information on this page is from the Merijn.org web site,
which provides excellent tools for dealing with some of the most
virulent forms of spyware:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Merijin has
taken a leading role in countering Cool Web Search, and the
(unknown) authors of Cool Web Search have responded in kind by adding
attacks on his utilities into their spyware. This page
provides some counters against such CWS attacks on Merijn utilities.
CWShredder
will not start. This generally means
you have a version of Cool
Web Search that is blocking CWShredder. Download the following
CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller tool from PepiMK (the creator of Spybot
S&D and FileAlyzer), run it first, then try running CWShredder
again:
http://www.safer-networking.org/files/delcwssk.zip
Unable
to download HijackThis. If trying to
download HijackThis fails
or does something bizarre like taking you to a porn site, try using the
following hard (numeric) download address:
http://209.133.47.12/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe
You
get a missing MSVBVM60.DLL error when using a Merijn utility.
This means your system is missing all part of its (usually standard)
Microsoft Visual Basic 6 runtime library. You can download and
reinstall this library directly fromMicrosoft by using this link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/Redist/sp5/WIN98ME/EN-US/vbrun60sp5.exe