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From: petard at freeshell.org (petard)
Subject: tvm.exe / poll each.exe / blehdefyreal toolbar

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:51:06PM -0700, mark wrote:
> 
> Anybody know about some trojan(s) that spawn a "tvm.exe" process, a
> "poll each.exe" process, inserts a "blehdefyreal" toolbar into IE, and
> hijacks the IE homepage to point to allaboutsearching.com? This thing
> also opens pop-ups pointing to this page:
> 
> http://69.20.62.53/yyy3.html
> 
> If the registry entries related to these processes are deleted then they
> keep being recreated. 
> 
> What is it? And how does one remove it? 
> 
It sounds like CWS.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63391,00.html

After about 4 hours of trying on a client's PC, I was unable to 
remove it and resorted to a reformat/reinstall. It's incredibly 
persistent and probably not worth your time to remove it.

hth,

petard

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