Re: In order to remove exectued malware, reinstall your operating system



From: "~BD~" <BoaterDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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| I'm fairly confident that many people with a single, partitioned, hard drive
| will simply wipe their C: drive, re-install Windows and think they are
| starting afresh - clean! Any malware 'worth its salt' will simply hide on
| another partition and then 'jump back' again onto C: once Windows has been
| re-installed. That is how I read matters in simple terms. Do you agree? TIA

| Dave

| **********************************************************

| TIA for any further comment/guidance.

| D.

No !

The following is untrue...

"Any malware 'worth its salt' will simply hide on another partition and then 'jump back'
again onto C: once Windows has been re-installed."





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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


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