Monday, May 15, 2006

Spyware

The new word or basically the bottomline for severly virused or spywared machines is a reformat/Reinstall. Most techs can't invest 15 hours to debug a machine and be absolutly sure that all is well again. Microsoft Security Officials now are admitting that the Reformat/Reinstall is the only way to assure a clean PC.

Microsoft Security went on to sugest that Spybot, Windows Defender, & RootKit Revealer be used. Windows Defender is a proactive protector while you need to run manual scans with the other products.

I ran microsofts RootKit finder (cmd /k scquery $sys$saries) at the command line, it found nothing. Running the RootKit Revealer I found a couple of instances.

If this RootKit Revealer is right on, My PC needs a reformat?????

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