Re: Virus Persists After Clean-Install
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:20:10 -0700
Ed wrote:
(quite a lot of snippage, really)
Interestingly enough, it seems to only activate after connecting to
the Internet - as for several days without installing any drivers for
wireless
modem etc, it did not show itself. Besides tying up system memory, it
manifests intself through not allowing myself to open (or turn on) my
Windows firewall, as well as telling me I need to reconfigure my
wireless settings in order to make my wireless work, when it is
already connected.
As David said, it is extremely unlikely that any virus survived a true
formatting and clean install. The last time I saw this sort of thing in
action was with a client who managed to infect her clean computer three
times by installing "drivers" she got from "a friend". The "drivers"
were a trojan keylogger. So based on your post, I'm going to guess that
you are installing something and infecting yourself. That's just a
guess of course - I have no way of knowing exactly what you are doing.
Malke
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