Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
--- John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you purchased this box with XP on it and they didn't give you XP installation discs then they usually supply backup file somewhere on the HD in a spare partition.If so it might well be worthwhile reinstalling from that. they are usually some drive image type of backup file and don't take very long to reinstall a brand new pristine condition OS as originally supplied. That's the best way to get rid of virus problems, provided that they have not spread to bios and partition tables, in which case it's a different ball game.
John
On partition installation files are not reliable on M$ boxes because of the spread of cab archive infections.
Well Lyvim and John... maybe I screwed things up again :
When doing the re-install, I used the built-in function from HP to create the "restore" CDs. Could that mean I transferred all the Trojans, Worms, Viruses and Spyware to the "restore" disks ?
No.
Anyway, right now I've scanned the HD for viruses, and no one seems to have survived, but nevertheless, each time I've cleaned the drive with XoftSpy, Adaware and Spybot, they tell me that various numbers of malware have been "quarantained" and will be deleted at next reboot. Only to the effect, that next time I reboot and run the tools, I've got another s%#t-load of worms, etc... etc...
I'm very tempted to give up. Not in my wildest imagination could I come up with an OS this horrible !
My daughter feels sorry for me : for my birthday present I wanted a new toilet bag, so she gave me one. You can admire it here :
http://haulrich.net/Family/toiletbag.jpg
A really fetching little number would go well in any art gallery ! Title : Kaj's bagged her in blue in the cubist style.
All I can say Is that I don't have much faith in any of these virus/tojan detecters programmes, because , for one thing they are always behind the curve, of that little tick fooling round in the basement of some loanly housing estate, or the mail address stripper who wants your addressbook, and knows how to get it.
She's a real cutie.
Kaj Haulrich.
I recommend a good firewall, otherwise if you suspect an infection, it's a reinstall for me.
If the infection has damaged bios and partition table then you have much more work to do.
So it's essential to have good restore utilities ready and waiting.
I can restore a windblows in 20 min.
LLF HD and bios reinstall about another hour or so, depending on how efficiently you want to wipe the HD.
John
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