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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
I've just started reading the article; it mentions Spybot...which does NOT find rootkits. At least it didn't find the one I got hit with last year that redirected me to Microsoft.com regardless of what browser I used, disabled McAfee VSO & Firewall, and downgraded IE from IE6 with SP1 to IE5.
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Last week I had a clients machine with nearly 200 items of malware (plus a couple of viruses for good measure)
Something on there was disabling her AV (including a second one I installed after uninstalling hers), wouldn't let Spybot or HijackThis even start and blocked all security web sites so I couldn't upgrade def files.
After 3 hours of messing I gave up and reinstalled XP. Fortunately she was excellent at backing up to two HD's. Pity she wasn't as good at careful surfing or running security apps !!
