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CWS hijack pulls a nasty stunt

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For anyone not familiar with this hijacker: CWS Chronicles

The latest version included a very nasty surprise.
They mutated the DNSRelay variant (number 8 at the site above) to include a hosts file hijack, including these lines:
O1 - Hosts: 64.135.204.60 spywareinfo.com
O1 - Hosts: 64.135.204.60 www.spywareinfo.com
O1 - Hosts: 64.135.204.60 lavasoftsupport.com
O1 - Hosts: 64.135.204.60 www.lavasoftsupport.com

Effectively disabling people from downloading HijackThis and CWShredder from their normal download-links and getting support at some of the most renowned anti-spyware-forums.

If you experience problems downloading both these programs and fear you have been hit by this hijack, please use this link:
http://216.180.252.218/~spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/hijackthis.zip

Then unzip, double-click HijackThis.exe and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Press that, save the log as a .txt file, and copy and paste its contents into your next post.

Most of what it lists will be harmless, so do not fix anything yet.

Regards,

Pieter
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$teve
thanx for the heads up pieter.
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putasolution
That is tantamount to sabotage, and is highly illegal,

Thanks for the heads up :D
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Flrman1
bump
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This isn't a sticky yet???????
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