I can guarantee that a infected system is unclean-able by you! Not to question your intelligence but I think you question the malware authors intelligence. I have setup honeypots as a matter of fact I operate several for my company and within 1 minute a system is so infected with unknown malware you would be astonished. And don't think I am just checking malware against one or two AV companies. Go to www.virustotal.com and see all the vendors. I collect malware that is not recognized by any of all those vendors and I have to reverse engineer it just to know that it does.
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. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:46 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation At 04:07 PM 10/02/2006, warpmedia wrote: >One way is now a hit-or-miss hack job, the other the proper >solution. It's not a academic exercise, it's a job, there is no >reason to spend time and still not be certain you've done the job right. I am doing the job right. Just because you can't get the time down to a reasonable level to clean a system doesn't mean it's impossible. It just means you haven't figured it out yet. T
