Thanks, JackG!! Got it from Majorgeeks - very grateful to you for the info. As you say, a long pause before the download begins but at least it works! Tried merijn.org again but still no luck inside the web site!

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As of right now, 8:10pm EST...I still can't get onto Merijn's site. Says, "action cancelled." Oh well... --Viv :)

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Can't get into Spyareinfo's site, TomCyote's sites either....they must all be getting hit by the same attack. Evil thought but would be nice to see CWS get a taste of their own medicine! Thanks Ray...got it from Major Geeks! Good day all! I never give up!

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Hey blender, try this; http://63.247.79.145/~coyote/forums/

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Hey Abnormal I cant get that one to work either...and I know I'm not infected by any cws or smartsearch...etc. keeping me out. Must be time of day or something (right now it's 3:30pm EST)...I cant see that many websites getting DOS attacked for this long by the CWS writers.....persistant buggers! BTW...anybody know if the new CWShredder is safe to use? Has anyone had any problems with it? __________________________ I never give up!

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Sorry you can't get there, some info from Mike (spywareinfo). As most people know by now, SpywareInfo, TomCoyote.org and merijn.org disappeared last week. This is due to a colossal, ongoing distributed denial of service attack. Several thousand trojaned PCs are throwing millions of HTTP GET requests at the apache server. The attacker is very determined to keep these sites off the net. Every time we filter out the attack, thousand of new machines join in. For now, the server is firewalled and all traffic is being null routed. No one has claimed responsibility and there has been no attempt to break into the server. We are examining files from some of the infected machines involved in the attacks. At this time, I cannot confirm or deny the rumors floating around that coolwebsearch.com or one of their affiliated sites is responsible for these attacks. TomCoyote.org is up and running again on a new server and the forums there are available to help people: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/. The private mailing list and malware repository for antispyware developers is also up and running on a new server. SpywareInfo and merijn.org will continue to be down for the next several days. My hosting service and I are working on setting up a system of multiple redundant proxy servers to shield the main server from these attacks. I hope to have this running within the next week or so. There are several mirrors for HijackThis and CWShredder. I believe Majorgeeks.com has the current version of both. HijackThis: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 CWShredder: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html If anyone would like to contribute a server, please contact me at mike@tomcoyote.org. There are some minimum requirements for each server. I need a minimum PII 300MHz 128RAM, dedicated IP address, apache 1.3x on linux (preferably red hat) with root access via SSH and minimum of 100GB bandwidth/month. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) will work fine (I don't need a whole box). SpywareInfo will be back. It will take more than this to keep us off the net. Mike Healan SpywareInfo http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php?board=22;action=display;threadid=21950 As for the shredder, I found no problem using ME.

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http://www.merijn.org is ONLINE AND RUNNING! If you can't reach the site, add the following to your HOSTS files: 216.40.225.12 merijn.org 216.40.225.12 www.merijn.org

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Thanks Abnormal I tried cwshredder too on xp pro...no problems here either, I just wanted to make sure before using it on other people's systems or recommending it to others. I will also try shredder on my 98 system to make sure....cwshredder ok on 98 but still asks about wether or not my modem driver is a random name.....might be a problem for some people not familliar with their system like I am (and many others). I still would be kind of leary on letting the tool remove whatever it wanted to...I dont think it is totally safe....the user should ask or research any "random" files the tool finds. Finally got to TomCyote's site with the info you provided...Thanks! _____________________________ I never give up!

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