At 00:24 5/31/2005, Chris Reeves wrote: >You know, I wanted to go back to this. > >Tonight I spent about 4 hours dicking with a box before saying "eh, screw >it". Outside of the normal spyware (some 1,434 objects in Ad-Aware SE from >safe mode) and some 32 VIRII (mostly pop-up java-downloader Trojan crap) it >just dawned on me: this is bullocks. Even if I did clean the box up >completely (which seemed like a waste) there was nothing there of any merit >that would warrant doing it. > >So my advice: formatting, etc. isn't a cop-out. It's a viable option. >Hell, starting with a fresh format, all the hotfixes first, etc. etc. is a >better position then you can be in if you do manage to "clean everything >up".
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