In Reply to: Long rant on the SonyBMG rookit posted by J on April 16, 2007 at 22:14:49:
J wrote:
"I don't know if it's practical for you, but if you had a day or two on a weekend to invest, I'd seriously consider backing up everything important you've got on yr box, storage is cheap & I've found additional hard drives to be great peripherals for years now, and do a format & reinstall. OR, I'd buy an iMac. "Backing up your PC, formatting the drive, and then re-building it using your backup ain't gonna help. You'll simply restore the bad stuff along with the good.
If you want to get rid of rootkits, get the AVG AntiVirus software (FREE) and have it ferret out the rootkits and remove them...
-RW-
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- Good advice, but ineffective... - rw 06:51:03 04/17/07 (0)