Regarding the Spybot thing
- From: "SueInCincy" <SueInCincy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:18:02 -0800
I just want to be doubly sure that you know that it has been at least three
reformats ago (one by a professional) since there was any Spybot on this
machine at all.
"David H. Lipman" wrote:
> From: "SueInCincy" <SueInCincy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> | I appreciate your quick replies, and I don't think I made myself clear about
> | how many different ways we have tried to get this disk cleared.
> |
> | First I tried the system recovery media. That worked one time, but I didn't
> | really understand what I was up against, and the bad guys got back in before
> | I could download the Windows security updates, etc. The next two times I
> | tried that method I had evidence of the bad guys even before I downloaded any
> | files or hooked up to the internet.
> |
> | Then I tried using the "long reformat" option from a Windows XP disc, and
> | that appeared to have worked once.
> |
> | Then, I tried the FDisk command from DOS, and then a couple of different
> | DOD-approved products for wiping a hard drive clean that booted from the CD.
> | Then I hired a specialist in security matters, who proceeded to use a machine
> | I knew was "dirty" (and he insisted I was just paranoid) to get the WEP keys
> | for my wireless network.
> |
> | I have never used anything by OEM software and/or downloads from OEM
> | websites.
> |
> | I don't know how they are doing this.
> |
> | I really do appreciate your prompt response, but I really do want you to
> | consider that this is something you haven't seen before.
> |
> | I have spent hundreds of hours studying this issue during the past five
> | weeks, and my daughter told me yesterday "she wants her mommy back." I don't
> | see anyone describing anything that comes close to this experience.
> |
> | Thanks again for your help.
> ..
>
> Don't use wireless ! If you must do networking, go wired.
> Make sure you use a router. Specifically block TCP and UDP ports 135 ~ 139 and 445 on that
> Router. Even better would be a full implementation of a FireWall on that Router.
>
> | I appreciate your quick replies, and I don't think I made myself clear about
> | how many different ways we have tried to get this disk cleared.
>
> And you still haven't. If you want help you must be specific. Of the 10's of thousands of
> infectors only a few dozen are Boot Sector Infectors and they will survive a reformat.
>
> Nowhere do I see anything posted about the use of anti virus software ! Hell, for all I
> know you might have had the Kriz or Chernobyl viruses and they could have wiped the data
> from your disks.
>
> You also did reply about my information on SpyBot and the DSO False Positive declaration.
>
> It doesn't matter if I haven't "seen" what you had before. If you practice Safe Hex and
> take precautionary measures then you won't need corrective measures and Mommy can be Mommy.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>
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