jonni boy

i know a lot of people are getting hit by this trojan horse thing including me so can any of you computer guys tell me why we are all getting it and what is its nature,will it cause major damage or is it just a pain in the bum.about 2 months ago i had our computer completely wiped clean like starting all over again then had to re load windows and adobe etc etc because our comp had parasites and everything was running mega slow but within a week we still got hit by trojan horse,everyday i run avg to check for virus but it still comes up......all i want to know is what is trojan and the likes all about.

Marakai

Yeah, it was only a matter of time before some of those guys came up with nasties that none of the removal software could deal with.

<crotchedy>
If some of the energy that these bastards exert developing this crap would go into bettering humanity and technology, I'd finally have my personall rocket car and interstellar spaceship!
</crotchedy>

One thing I do, when I have to hit blackhat and other sites of ill repute to grab the latest hacker tools, is use a virtual machine that I can easily wipe out and reconstruct without contaminating my main system(s).

<checks forum> Uhm, sorry, I'll stop geeking out now.

Mike

Ray

Q. Who is/are CoolWebSearch?
Coolwebsearch is a company located in Russia. From their site:
Cool Web Search is a Pay-Per-Click search engine. If you get a lot of visitors on your website, we will pay you 50% for each search, that your visitors make on our search engine. We also will pay you 5% of the revenues earned by every webmaster you referred to us.
Since their emergence last year they have accumulated over 1000 affiliates, all with their own site.
the following people are running/working for CoolWebSearch:
Louise Vitte (founder)
Alex S. Hatkinson (programming)
Serge Stepantsov (programming)
Victor (site admin)