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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 07/13/07 05:29
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Bernhard Sturm
<sturmnixspam@datacomm.ch> writing in news:f74ott$5r4$1@aioe.org:
> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>> The anti-
>> virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned
>> up, installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I
>> told them that IE was off limits.
>>
>> Three days to fix this. Scarey.
>
> if the computer was that infected, are you sure you have no rootkits
> sitting on it? I know that most spyware-removal-tools and scanners are
> not able to detected sophisticated rootkits (such as the infamous
> BMG-sony-rootkit). Sometimes it's just best practice to wipe the HD
> and make a clean install when you have encountered such a 'victim'.
>
> cheers
> bernhard
>
There are probably rootkits sitting on it that I'll have to go back later
and fix. For now, she's okay, and with the other files I installed, and
strict instructions not to use IE or go anywhere strange, she should be
okay for a while.
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
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