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Wombat, WARNING" Involving the "New" CWSHREDDER v2.10" Read the bottom few Posts and decide for yourself if you want this New Update. http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?showtopic=2299&st=0&p=12489&#entry12489 Here is another Forum I came across. http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=10023 I found the above info on another forum I frequent. Tufenuf

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I'd stay away and suggest sticking with the 2.00 version 'til Intermute resolves inherent problems with the new version. -- Always do what you are afraid to do --

Wombat wrote: FUD. Translated: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, rite? i_XpUser

FUD?, I doubt it. Good sound warnings. Saturday morning I downloaded the CWShredder.exe version 2.11 file directly from the InterMute web site and ran a Scan on my system. It reported the following infections: CWS.Svchost32 CWS.Therealsearch CWS.Aboutblank CWS.Jksearch I think NOT! CWShredder v1.59.1 runs clean without any detection on the same system. I then removed my HOSTS file and ran a CWShredder v2.11 Scan again, and it showed no infections. Sounds like there is still a problem with "false positives" because of valid HOSTS file entries. My HOSTS file is dated 8-4-2003 when I last removed an entry from it, and is otherwise much older than that. A compare with a CD-R backup copy made a year ago shows no changes to my file. So there is no way any recent version of CWS could have altered my HOSTS file. Period. However, I then ran CWShredder v2.11 in FIX mode. It reported that if "fixed" the above listed infections. Hum... Nothing showed up in the Recycle Bin. Oops.. My 386K HOSTS file is now 677K in size. 15 blank lines have been added between every existing line including between the comments at the start of the file. Not good. It is hard to read now and wastes memory when loaded! And what is this??? CWShredder v2.11 at the same exact time created a HOSTS.BAK at 508K size with "only" seven blank lines between each entry line. Go figure that game plan, of going from zero to 7 to 15 blank lines while destroying the original? Ooooh S**T.. There are a lot of entries missing from my now over bloated HOST file. Entries like: 0.0.0.0 ad.yahoo.com All YAHOO.COM entries are gone but not those like ad.img.yahoo.co.kr And a lot of others. Attitude = ON Restore HOSTS file from CD-R Add polite warning about CWShredder v2.11 to web page. And pore a stiff drink.

Update: The newest version 2.12 released Monday (12/13/2004) seems to have fixed the HOSTS file "false positives" I saw, and did not corrupt my existing HOSTS file when it was ran in FIX mode. However, I was not able to test it on an infected system to see if it found any new real problems or if it corrupted the HOSTS file in the process of making any fixes.