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Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn

The article discusses a program called CoolWebSearch, which takes over your browser. Among other things, according to the article, CWS:

• creates a "constant barrage of pornography pop-up ads."
• creates "a hundred or more bookmarks, some for extremely hard-core pornography websites."
• slows your computer down and causes random crashes.
• "collects and transfers personal information from the infected PC."
• in some cases auto-updates, or allows other web sites to download additional code onto your machine.
• Blocks access to web sites that would explain how to remove CWS.

It only affects Windows machines using IE, and the advice is the usual -- keep up with Windows updates, keep your virus checker updated, etc.