On Thu, April 10, 2008 1:41 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > The recent attention to botnets (eg on /.) makes me wonder what kind of > detection tools there are and how good they are. > > I see the link from today's /. blurb talks about Microsoft's "malicious > software detection tool". Searching on that phrase does lead something > called "Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool", which is > easy to find and downloadable (although I haven't tried it). > > Does anyone have any experience with this or other such tools? Is it > (are they) any good? > > Links to related tools and techniques are invited. We all probably know > someone with an MSbox. I kinda like to know what to recommend to friends > and relatives along these lines. Well, of course I mean the inferior > strategies available after "install Linux" :-). > > Regards, > ..jim
I always felt that the M$ install was malicious after a Win 95 (IIRC) wiped out my Linux partition and created a single M$ share w/o asking permission. Afterward I found if I marked the Linux partition as type 0 before the install, it was left alone, and I could mark it back. All that's probably changed but I haven't installed M$ in a long time. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
