At 03:20 PM 10/02/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
Honestly just reformat. If you were to try to clean it you would need to be versed in rootkit detection and other kernel level skills to even be remotely able to clean out a partially sophisticated virus. Its just totally not worth it then you never have the peace of mind you got rid of all of them.
Man, I'm shocked at the surrender attitude coming from this list. Removing viruses and spyware is possible, and really isn't much more time consuming than a reinstall, and is much less time consuming than a reinstall plus software install plus configuration plus data recovery. (Especially since data back without virus scan makes the reinstall questionable as viruses can hide in apparent data files.
T
