Well the difference is that you spent a resonable amount of time trying to clean a system that you could possibly leave infected. I would recommend reformatting then making sure you customers have a resonable level of layers of defense firewall, software firewall , some av, alternative browser, and also some end user education .
-----Original Message----- From: "Thane Sherrington (S)"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2/13/06 3:52:26 AM To: "The Hardware List"<hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation At 10:02 PM 10/02/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: >That whole nothing can stop me attitude I don't buy it and I don't >respect it in this context. If the issue is a system crash or a bug in >configuration that's where the never quite attitude is good. But in a >case where you could possibly not clean out a system and leave a >password stealing Trojan on a system the payoff is not very much when >the alternative is a reformat and 100% safe system. Except that if it takes only minutes to be reinfected with tons of unknown malware then does it make any difference if I miss one piece or the customer reinstalls it by surfing the net? What is your solution for people who want to be safe? Is there one? T
