Monday, November 27, 2006

CWShredder, ADS Spy, Many more...........

CWShredder

A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a million other names). Established antispyware program tend to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until they update, you can use this to completely remove the hijack. This program is updated to remove the new variants once they come out. CWShredder is owned and maintained by InterMute/Trend Micro since October 19, 2004. It is available from them for free seperately, or integrated into SpySubstract PRO. Click here to Download.

ADS Spy

A small tool to list, view or delete Alternate Data Streams (ADS) on Windows 2000/XP with NTFS file systems. ADS are a way of storing meta-information about files, without actually storing the information in the file it belongs to, carried over from early MacOS compatibility from Windows NT4. This meta-information is not visible in Windows Explorer. Recently browser hijackers began using this technique to store hidden information on the system, and even store trojan executable files in ADS streams of random files on the system. Use with caution, Windows and several antivirus programs also store (temporary) information in ADS.
Compatible with: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Click here to Download.

IBProcMan

A standalone version of the little process manager included in HijackThis (Misc Tools section). Shows full paths to processes, optionally shows DLLs loaded by processes. Can save the process list (and dll list) to file, as well as copy it to the clipboard. Compatible with at least Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP and newer. Very useful for cleaning up systems infected with trojans or viruses that kill antivirus and antispyware programs. Compatible with: All Windows versions
Click here to Download.


BHOList

A frontend for TonyKlein's BHO & Toolbar CLSID collection that downloads the list, and displays it in a sortable, searchable list. You can also export it to a file and load that file back instead of downloading it from CastleCops again. Also displays local BHOs and toolbars. Compatible with: All Windows versions .Click here to Download.

BugOff

This little app disables a few exploits that are commonly used by browser hijackers (including CWS), thus protecting you from infection. This does not remove an existing infection! Applicable to everyone that uses Internet Explorer. Note that disabling certain objects cripples programs that depend on it - in which case you can temporarily enable the object. Compatible with: All Windows versions. Click here to Download.

Kill2Me

A removal tool specifically for the Look2Me parasite. This tool removes versions 115, 116, 117 118, 120, 121 and 122 on Windows versions 95, 98, 98SE and ME. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are not supported - use shadowwar's L2MFix for that instead. Compatible with: Windows 9x/ME. Click here to Download.

Uptimer4

A bar that sits at the top of your screen and can display over 20 pieces of system information that might be useful to you. System time, system date, uptime, free RAM, free pagefile, free disk space, CPU usage, IP address(es), Winamp controls, battery status, running programs, netstat, etc. This project is currently suspended until I have more time to update it. Keep sending in bugreports though. Some functions may not work properly with Windows 95 and Windows NT4 without SP6. Compatible with: All Windows versions, though some functions will not work on Win95. Click here to Download.

KazaaBegone

A Kazaa uninstaller which scans and removes all elements of all Kazaa versions, as well as all of the bundled software that comes with it. This new version is updated to remove Winsock hijackers correctly. Compatible with: All Windows versions. Click here to Download.

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