CWShredder Updated to Version 2 - October, 2004 1

[bcastner]

I found this by accident. CWShredder has been updated and its authorship transfered:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

From the official download site:

http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html

CWShredder™ Version 2.0
Released: October 2004

CWShredder™ Version 2.0 is the latest defense against the new Cool Web Search variants.

What's New With CWShredder?

Originally developed and updated by a graduate student in the Netherlands, CWShredder™ is now maintained by InterMute. CWShredder used in conjunction with SpySubtract offers you the strongest defense against Spyware threats.

The download will place an InterMute folder in your C:\Programs containing SpySubtract\CWShredder.exe and IMReport.exe. part of SpySubtract. This is a scanner similar to HJT with a report(to InterMute)button. It is optional and not automatic.

 

[diogenes10]

Is spysubtract a reputable product or are they trying to use the cwshredder reputation to market something questionable?

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[bcastner]

Good question. My understanding is that it is legitimate, but again its installation is optional.

 

[dbMark]

For Merijn to have sold or transferred the program to InterMute, they should be reputable. Browsing their site, I see that they sell programs to block Adware, Spyware and Badware. CWShredder is being incorporated into their program SpySubstract. In fact, I failed to find a link to the CWShredder 2.0 download page from their main site, but it was easy to find the page describing how it was being added to SpySubtract and to download a free trial for that one. No doubt they hope many will move up to their suite of security applications.

 

[diogenes10]

I looked at merijn's site this morning. He has an announcement of the sale and a link to this press release.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-19-2004/0002287756&EDATE

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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?