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new cwshredder update...

Feb 10, 2004 12:45PM PST

may cause you to lose notepad.exe....

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Thanks ! Yikes, where did you find it??
Feb 10, 2004 2:21PM PST

Is there already a "solution" ??

I know CWS.Smartsearch.4 A mutation of this variant exists that hijacks to magicsearch.ws instead of smartsearch.ws, uses the startup 'MicrosoftWindows' and also drops the notepad32.exe Notepad hijacker like CWS.Smartsearch.3. It also hijacks the DefaultPrefix and WWW Prefix to magicsearch.ws like CWS.Vrape and attempts to kill several firewalls, including (but not limited to) ZoneAlarm and Kerio Personal Firewall.

click here

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Re:Thanks ! Yikes, where did you find it??
Feb 10, 2004 7:46PM PST

from merjlin of course...

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Re:Thanks ! Yikes, where did you find it??
Feb 11, 2004 12:27AM PST
from merjlin of course...

Link ?????
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Re:Re:Thanks ! Yikes, where did you find it??
Feb 11, 2004 8:04AM PST

Just open shredder and update, then run the program....

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Re:new cwshredder update...
Feb 11, 2004 12:36AM PST

It happened to me. I did not really lose it completely. I only lost it in my c:\Windows\System32 folder. I found out it needs to be there to show in my right click "Open With" selection. I made a copy which was in my C:\Windows folder and pasted to my C:\Windows\System32 folder and made this copy "Read Only" so far it seems to have worked.