Yeah, that was my plan. My OS is on a 75GB SSD. Is it necessarily to wipe the SSD.. can you even do that with a SSD? Or will a copy over of the image file and MBR be enough?
At 07:12 AM 5/19/2011, you wrote:
Make a current backup, restore from last month's backup image and bring over any files that have been created/updated since then from the backup. I never trust a machine after in infection has been detected. While I will sometimes try to clean up a system, it's largely an academic exercise as I'll eventually reinstall or go back to a known-good backup anyway. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] TrojanDownloader:Win32.Mesmer.A > > Somewhere in the last 24 hours I picked up the rootkit virus > TrojanDownloader:Win32.Mesmer.A . Just about every time I try to use > a link I get redirected somewhere else. I am running Security > Essentials and a scan did find and eliminate it but of course when I > rebooted it was back. I know rootkit viruses are difficult or > impossible to get rid of. > > If I restore a clean Acronis image file of my OS partition, from > last month would that do it? Or should I spend the time trying to > kill it and if so what is the best way.. anybody have experience with this? > > Thanks.
