Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Drsolly wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> > Interesting.
> >
> > Via eWeek.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a
> > Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in
> > an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall malware-infested
> > operating systems.
> >
> > "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs,
> > the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there
> > really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike
> > Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft,
> > said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.
>
> Maybe MS should do "Windows for Grannies", along the lines of grannix.
> If all the software is on CD Rom and you can't install software on the 
> hard disk, then you've moved quite a long way to hardeing the system.
 
Damn - now that I've suggested it publicly, no-one can patent it.

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