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Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:19:05 -0800
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net> Date sent: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:14:14 GMT
Interesting.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1945782,00.asp
Very interesting indeed. Until a few years ago, I was highly incensed at those who suggested you had to reformat and reinstall. It was always, in my experience, much easier to kill the beast and go on (with even the most fundamental level of knowledge of malware). (My first experience was a smallish post-secondary school that got some of their machines infected with Stoned, and blew the whole network off, re-installing all the software *and re-keying all the databases, including the library and all student data, by hand.*) What changed my mind was XP. Almost as soon as it came out I started running into situations where the virus had tangled itself so deeply into the guts of the system that you couldn't get it out. (Of course, it didn't help that once XP came out most people were using NTFS, and the good old tools of yesteryear were no good anymore.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () sun soci niu edu What's nice with GUI is that you see what you manipulate, but what's bad about GUI is that you can only manipulate what you see. http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Drsolly (Apr 05)
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