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Oh come on reinstall is only if its completely knackered lol. I know I do this for a living so this kind of thing just makes me role my sleeves up but there is no reason why nobody else could do it. There are many tools out there that get rid of this kind of stuff, hijackthis being one of the best although its more fun hunting them down manually.GreenV8S wrote:If your machine has been compromised then unless you believe you are smarter than the guy who wrote the virus, the only safe remedy is to reinstall everything from scratch. You'll often find that one infection is used to install others; even if you find one, there's no realistic way to be sure you've got them all.
I don't do it for a living, but I spend *far* too much time fixing systems including a great many that people have had a go at fixing themselves and got in a right mess. If you're willing and able to roll your sleeves up, get down into the bowels of the system and sort out boot cylinders, root kits, registry, infected files etc then you can spend your time doing that and if you're good enough you'll get there eventually. It will usually be quicker to reinstall though, and it will definitely cure it whereas repairing the existing installation may or may not.katanaman wrote:Oh come on reinstall is only if its completely knackered lol. I know I do this for a living
I was fortunate enough to have a mate round this afternoon who runs another web site, mentioned the problem to him, and off he went running a scan, took 2.5 hours to run the scan, but it appears to have worked, I was able to manually remove the trojan, in fact I had 2 trojans running, I cant beleive how fast the thing is now, thanks for the help chaps, BTW I dont have a clue what he set up to run, and I cant find it im the computer, so I will ask him tomorrow what it was he ran,----------- Just found it, Noadware.katanaman wrote:In an ideal world yes reinstall is quick, I can do it at the work in around 15 mins because I have an image of every pc. However at home people seldom have their data separate from the OS so a reinstall is a no no unless they want to loose everything. Besides what we are on about here is a trojan so it wont have done major damage if any to the OS. I once spoke to a tech at Edinburgh university who reinstalled every pc they had because of MS blast where in reality once understood it took about 5 mins to sort it out. It was even possible to sort it out with a bit of VB script on the active directory. What should have taken him a day or two to sort out took three weeks.
Anyway how are you getting on with it Ian?
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