Would you continue using a HD you disinfected--or do a cleanreinstall or Ghost an older HD image?

[RayLopez99]

Except that he is right. And you are a pompous stupid twit
How is your imaginary "Debian install" doing?

Projection noted, you dumb kraut. And keep working: my fellow
citizens in Greece want your bailout money. Shutup and get back to
your factory and work you idiot.

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

. Make sure no BIOS malware is present before connecting you backups
. Best to put backup disks in enclosures that only allow readonly
  access

BIOS malware? There's malware that infects the BIOS? What would that
do, aside from annoying the user and perhaps having them go in and
override the BIOS settings?

Reading your post I take it you are tongue-in-cheek.

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

Let's see. First someone have to crack the Linux via getting user to
install some software as root, which installs back door - not likely.
For automatic infestation of Windows 7 that VMware Linux virtual machine
should contain some Linux trojan which would be able to us for example
shared folders or samba to compromise Windows 7 host - yet again unlikely..

So practically no way.

First scenario fairly easy I would think...

Second scenario I agree "not likely" because Windows 7 host is on
guard for those tricks (I hope). But I can see, given time, perhaps
somebody coming up with a way for Linux to infect Windows when the
latter is hosting the former in a virtual machine.

Now *THERE'S* payback: Linux infecting Windows! LOL

RL

 

[JEDIDIAH]

Lol! You never cease to amaze!

Morons like you are why Windows is such a historic cluster **** from
top to bottom. It start at Microsoft Corp with engineers with their heads
firmly implanted in their asses all the way down to individual Lemmings
that try to encourage everyone to drink the cool-aid.

No wonder it's such a mess.

You idiots will be the end of consumer general purpose computing as
people wrongfully associate your nonsense with general purpose systems
in general.

 

[Dustin]

Wow man, how do you do something like that? I've hash'd a single
file using some freeware tool but to hash every file in a HD must
require some proprietary software I would imagine. I think
Microsoft should do that for all system files: have a dictionary of
known good hashes and compare any changes to that dictionary,and at
least warn the user if these critical system file hashes change.

I wrote a small app to do it... shrug.. it's a geeky thing. Sadly,
after writing my own, I found one already existed! LOL. by pure luck
tho, they're compatable. IE: my results file is readable by theirs and
vice versa.

Yes Kaspersky recognized it as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent. This
Kaspersky was on a Linux DVD and run at boot time. Caught and
removed the virus, no more sudden reboots after that, but being
paranoid I went ahead and did a complete flatten and rebuild of my
system (and still doing it as we speak--I took a break just now to
post here).

That's a generic definition for a trojan. Not strickly viral.

Did you kill somebody? Or just .killfile them? At least you're past
your unsanitary hand problem. ;-)

It's Sully Erna's song from his single album Avalon; Sinner's prayer.
The lead singer of Godsmack.

 

[Jim Nugent]

Just what the title says. Do you really feel good using a PC you have
disinfected? Don't you feel better with a known PC that never had a
virus? Do you eat your own cooking?

I would ask myself these questions:

1. Since *you* cleaned it, how difficult was it, and how confident are you
that you got it all? Are you familiar with what you were dealing with wrt
potential MBR involvment etc.?

2. How easily and how quickly could you detect the first sign that it was
still there?

3. Can you keep up-to-date backups of your data in case it comes back (in
which case I would definitely recomment a reformat and re-install).

Repair vs. Re-install is a fairly controversial subject as I understand it.

 

[RayLopez99]

I would ask myself these questions:

1. Since *you* cleaned it, how difficult was it, and how confident are you
that you got it all? Are you familiar with what you were dealing with wrt
potential MBR involvment etc.?

2. How easily and how quickly could you detect the first sign that it was
still there?

3. Can you keep up-to-date backups of your data in case it comes back (in
which case I would definitely recomment a reformat and re-install).

Repair vs. Re-install is a fairly controversial subject as I understand it.
 --
Jim

Those are all good points and worthy of separate threads.

For example, I can see where if you keep shallow copies, or say copies
only going back two iterations (like I do--they go back 2 weeks x 2 =
1 month back) then restoring an old version might mean you still have
the virus but you did not notice it back then--assuming such "delayed
viruses" are out there.

Backups of data: good point--I do keep separate backups of data (as
opposed to ghost backups of HD sectors)

MBR--good stuff. The virus I had messed up the MBR and I ended up
doing a clean reinstall.

RL