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Re: OT Re: virus warning

** Reply to message from Raphael  on
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:40:13 -0400


> Best hope you don't get this
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2355205/Rootkit-Infection-Requires-Windows-Reinstall

The Microsoft engineer, quoted above, who said you had to do a
complete reinstall, withdrew his advice several days later.
It's total bunk.

All you do to kill rootkits is boot from a CD that doesn't
access the hard disk's Master Boot Record; then you replace the
MBR and/or the boot sector. It isn't difficult.

You're all just rumor-mongering and scaring yourselves. Google
these things! Everything is fixable, usually easily. The real
question is, what bad habits allowed a rootkit to reach user's
computer in the first place? This nobody talks about...

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