Re: HELP!!! ***res://<random>.dll/<random>.html#<random>*** HELP!!!

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From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:34:45 -0400

And how much did you contribute (money) to Merijn's efforts? 

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The Stull Demon wrote:
> °Mike° <qp_mike_qp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:<40e27f47.668578@localhost>...
>
>>
>> Why have you posted an *incomplete* HijackThis log,
>> when you have screamed not to suggest anything
>> that's not brand new?
>>
>>
>
> THE LOG IS (was) COMPLETE. I cut and pasted *EVERYTHING* that was in
> the Log File into the post. I SCREAM BECAUSE *NOBODY* HAS FOUND A WAY
> TO CLEAN THIS NEWEST CWS VARIANT YET! That's why. That's why I scream.
>
> If you don't have the answers, that's OK. But please - SHUT UP (!!!)
> and let someone who does have the answers answer this post. You're not
> helping. The guy who wrote the CWS Shredder has *GIVEN UP*. I REPEAT:
> He has quit. When the going got REALLY tough, he quit. When my Dad got
> infected with the NEWEST variant of the CWS Malware, he quit. Can
> someone please pick up the pieces? And can someone set up a
> military-style tribunal to TRY AND CONVICT the monsters responsible
> for this?
>
> Here's what appear to be the FINAL WORDS from MERIJN THE QUITTER:
>
> June 28, 2004:
> Alright, this will be my last update for a while. I have a lot of
> things going on that are not spyware-related in the next few months
> and frankly I find these more important than the spyware-related
> issues. I'm sorry if that offends you, but I simply don't have the
> time to do both at the same time. I hope you'll understand.
>
> NOPE. SORRY. I DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> July 1 2004, I will be graduating from the University of Utrecht and
> receive my Masters Degree in Science (chemistry, specifically).
> September 1 2004, I will start a second study at the same university.
> I'm not sure what the English name for this study is (in Dutch it's
> Informatiekunde) but it's in the Computer Sciences field.
>
> WHO CARES???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Right now, my email inbox is overflowing with over 2700 emails which I
> can't possibly answer all. These 2700 are two-thirds of about 4000,
> the remaining one-third being spam and email viruses which I've
> already deleted. (For god's sake people, get some decent antivirus
> protection, that's nearly 1300 emails from Windows systems infected
> with email spewing trojans.)
>
> YOU WONDER WHY?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE LET US DOWN!!!
>
> I will not be able to respond to your email anytime soon! Here are my
> answers to the majority of emails I've gotten so far:
>
> Q. Can you look at my HijackThis/StartupList/CWShredder log?
> A. No, pick a link from the list of forums that can help you interpret
> your log and ask for help there.
>
> Q. CWShredder isn't fixing my problem!
> A. While it's been easy and even fun keeping CWShredder up to date,
> the recent variants are a living hell. The people who wrote the latest
> variants of the trojan surpass the older variants by far.
> - Resident DLLs from the about:blank, res://xxxx.dll or invisible
> variants cannot be removed by CWShredder or HijackThis.
> - Variants like f0r0r that are protected by Hacker Defender cannot be
> removed by CWShredder or HijackThis.
>
> Q. When will CWShredder be updated again?
> A. It won't be again, probably. I have a few bugs to fix, but after
> that there's not much left to do - I simply do not have the tools to
> remove the latest variants, they are too agressive or complicated to
> allow automated removal by CWShredder.
>
>
> ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!
>
> QUITTER!!!
>
> OK... let me catch my breath... ok... better now... can someone please
> take over where the QUITTER left off and help get us get rid of this
> latest variant of CWS? Please?

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