Neil said:
I find it quicker to re-image than to mess about removing a virus which
may / may not end up being removed completely. I'm with Carey on this one.
By the time I've gone through your steps I could have re-imaged, cooked
dinner and gone out with my better half for the evening. YMMV
Yes of course you could. But the majority of people who post on this
newsgroup don't have an image available and have no idea how to do this.
The majority of people who post can get through a malware cleanup by
following instructions or they need to take the machine to someone skilled.
My mileage certainly does vary because, like all other professionals I
know, I have images and backups and plenty of operating system install
disks. Installing an operating system - with or without images - is no
big deal for people who have done that thousands of times for years and
years.
My client base is home users and small businesses and I will tell you
that when they first come to me absolutely none of them have images and
very few of them have burned CD/DVD backups.
Malke
