[Scspamcop] Re: low importance - anyone know what this spammer is peddling?

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On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:44:53 +0100
Chris Wright <chris.a.wright at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ant wrote:
> > 
> > Now you could ask for a virus or worm to be developed that would
> > target particular infections and try to clean hijacked machines.
> > That would be a very tall order when you consider anti-virus
> > products are not usually able to restore a PC automatically to a
> > completely stable infection-free state.
> >   
> 
> Easy as pie.... You'd get it to install a grub bootloader, create a
> new partition, download and install the minimal Linux kernel and set
> it to boot from that on reload
> Can't get more than a "stable infection-free state" than that
> 
> ;)

Back in the day, that was how I would do things on the internet, rather
that surf from windows I would boot linux and do that, then when I
wanted to do my college work I'd reboot into windows.

> (And to support the wink, you'll note I sent this from XP, and if I
> had used my other machine, it would have been Vista.  Had to get this
> in before some other bugger said it seriously).

Seriously, if you want to clean your windows install run "sfc /scannow"
from the run dialogue.

I think to answer Betsy's challenge, that's all people need to know
about, just run that every now and then when not on the internet (as it
replaces things back to their install), and then apply the SP's...

It's not perfect, but if the Trojan has touched the OS then that should
patch it.

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