[Hidden-tech] PC technician recommendations?

[Kevin Phillips]

I agree it is the only 100% sure way to clean a system but 99% of the time
you know when you have cleaned a system sati factually with various pieces
of software and a good hour connected to the net doing a little surfing on
the nasty dirty internet !!!!!


Kevin Phillips 
KPIT Consulting 
kevin at kpitconsulting.com 
Office (413) 420-0212
Cell (413) 330-7789 

www.kpitconsulting.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hoogendyk [mailto:hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu] 
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 5:32 PM
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Kevin Phillips wrote:
> I will spend about 1/2 hour on a system cleaning it up and trying to 
> remove everything before giving up and recommending a clean install.
> Yes it really is a pain to reload everything again but in the long 
> term you get a better experience.
> Badly infected Windows never seem's to recover properly.

Just as a general security note -- it is standard recommendation among
sysadmins that, if you have an infected or hacked system, you wipe it and
re-install. You just can't ever be sure that you have removed all backdoors
or extraneous pieces of hacking kits. You might think you cleaned it up, and
it ends up becoming fully reinfected very quickly because of some piece or
backdoor that you didn't catch. If you have systematic backups, you might go
back through them to determine when the infection occurred. And, If you can
definitively tell when the infection first occurred, you might recover from
those backups. But you really should wipe and either re-install or recover
from known clean backups.


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