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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Here is some news for those who don't know:
The toolbar and scumware people do this all the time - most of the installers for "black hat" toolbars first take steps to remove any other known toolbars from the systems they infect. It sort of becomes a war inside your PC, as the two (or more) toolbars fight it out for surpremacy.
It is one of the reasons most of the toolbars (including apparently Zango) have remarkable self healing (what we can self re-installation) abilities, hiding version of themselves all over the place so that they can be re-activated and reloaded automatically even after an attack to remove them.
We would have to have a large number of people working endlessly to try to find ways to get rid of this stuff... have you seen how many version of coolwebsearch there are?
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Expanding on this idea, once our program is installed it will not only clean their PC of spyware but will block their software from being installed ever again. I am not a programmer but I am sure we could block all of the ips/urls that they use to install this shit on that peron's computer.
If somethign did get through the surfer would be alerted to it ( big flashing neon signs ) to which spyware made it through and how to manually uninstall it and give them the contact info of that spyware company and the contact info of the FTC to complain to.
Forgive me for being an optimist, but i think this could work.