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Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:05:29 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net> Date sent: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:14:14 GMTInteresting.http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1945782,00.aspVery 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.*)
I spoke to one "expert" who proudly told me he didn't need an antivirus, he'd gotten rid of Stoned by simply using fdisk to delete the partition, then remake the partition, reformat, reload ... So I asked him "Did you use /mbr?" "What?" "Heh. You've just gotten rid of everything on that computer *except* the virus." _______________________________________________ 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 Nick FitzGerald (Apr 04)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Drsolly (Apr 05)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Nick FitzGerald (Apr 05)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 04)
- RE: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Blanchard_Michael (Apr 04)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Ron (Apr 04)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible James Kehl (Apr 05)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Drsolly (Apr 05)
- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Apr 05)