2009/11/29 Drsolly <[email protected]> > Daughter.1 has picked up a nasty, that wants her to pay for an antivirus, > and keeps nagging at her. She already had Norton, but that doesn't seem to > want to know. I don't know if she's updated it - probably not. > > I didn't fancy wrestling with the malware to try to remove it, or go back > to some previous checkpoint (there probably isn't one). > > I offered her two solutions. > > 1) reinstall XP. She doesn't have the CDs (I don't think they came with > the computer). I suspect you can't buy XP now. Vista will cost her about a > hundred pounds, and then she'll need to buy a new word processor, I'd > guess. Probably another hundred or two. > > I suspect that a new laptop would be cheaper. I remember when we used to > wonder if a virus could actually destroy the hardware. Well, you don't > need to when it's cheaper to buy a new computer than to get rid of the > virus. > > 2) I install Linux. Zero cost, and she most likely won't ever see another > malware. > > > > It's a no-brainer, really. > > > Do the folks at MS realise what this is doing to them? > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
3) use combofix to remove the nasty. I've used this quite a few times reccently, worked every time. -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK
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