Cool Web Search spyware meets Rootkit stealth

[puff-m-d]

Just an article that I ran across and found pretty interesting...

-{ Quote: "Cool Web Search spyware meets Rootkit stealth: (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829744,00.asp)
Recent versions of the Cool Web Search spyware have rootkit-like features that allow the spyware authors to hide their program files on Windows systems. The new spyware variants are a sign of the increasing sophistication of malicious code authors, and of spyware makers, according to the director of malicious content research at Computer Associates International. Researchers at Webroot have also seen rootkit features appearing in spyware applications like Cool Web Search." }-

[Vikorr]

I was wondering when CWS would get around to this.

[Pollmaster]

-{ Quote: "I was wondering when CWS would get around to this." }-

Old news I'm afraid.

[starborn]

Yeah, and a lot of the other spyware is heading in the same direction. I hope the AS/AV companies are ready for this stuff. I wonder if Hijackthis will be able to find this garbage.

[Vikorr]

I knew they were heading down that track, but hadn't heard before that article that CWS had added that functionality. CWS has for a while seemed to be the nastiest of the common spyware.