I removed a virus from a PC yesterday and I have a question

[Dick Moore]

I use ClamXav once in a while, just to be sure my Mac isn't a conduit/pass-through (as opposed to being infected itself). There's a beta for Snow Leopard that works fine.

I just yesterday finished reinstalling Windows on a firend's box due to a SkyNet infection, apparently picked up from a first-time visit to Craigslist. AVG Free was running but no up to date, Malwarebytes was stopped dead in it's tracks, and Spybot S&D would run, but could not fix the problems. Restore wouldn't work, and going to the Repair function in Windows set-up also didn't result in a working system.

Finally did what I should have in the first place -- nuked and paved. There were no essential data or apps on the machine, so no wails of anguish. But reinstalls are such a humongous waste of time.... Can't figure out why using a restore point couldn't get it back in order -- that's one nasty worm.

[decay]

this sounds fake, but it's pretty good, too:

http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

[mrlynn]

My IT guy gave me a CD that boots in Linux and runs an open-source program called Bit Defender. The advantage of this is that the nasties hidden in the Windows Registry can't load because you haven't booted Windows.

It found a bunch of malware on a PC I was trying to disinfect, but in the end it still left some nasties. So I'm going to wipe the drive.

/Mr Lynn

[Monster]

superantispyware is not fake, and is one of the utilities I normally suggest to run after Malwarebytes.