Remove Personal Antivirus (rogue spyware)

Removal tools are no solution to an infection, particularly not with malware that may download more malware or may give an attacker remote access. One can never be sure what else was modified on the system and thus can never be certain that the malware was removed entirely.

cu

59cobalt

59cobalt might sound like a broken record on this issue, but he's absolutely correct. The only way to be sure the corruption has been completely removed is to restore from an image prior to the infection or reformat & reinstall. 59cobalt: I appreciate your faithfulness to repost this response whenever the issue pops up again. Hopefully, it will start to sink into people's minds.

G :

@ G : Not everybody is able to reinstall and reformate thier pcs.and if someone can do that,is`nt it bothring to to format and reinstall windows twice or even thrice a day?huh i had that experience. many viruses do corrupt restore point and also make thier backup in drives other than windows installation drive and they infect the fresh windows when you reinstall.and other drives contain too much data. no one loves to formate thier data collected in past months or even i past years. ;)

If one would have to do so every day, one is doing something very wrong.

well..

A good reason for not running them in the first place.

That's very rare.

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And that's not necessary unless one is behaving very stupidly.

That's why most of us who know what they're doing try to prevent our systems from being infected in the first place. Backups and/or system images take care of the rest.

That doesn't change anything about the fact that reinstalling is the

*only* safe way back to a clean system, unless you can determine *exactly* when and how an infection occurred and what was altered on the system afterwards.

cu

59cobalt

This is a classic example of someone who should not be using a computer.

Why are you installing these viruses? Viruses do not magically appear on your computer. YOU - the person using the computer are the one installing them. You can avoid the virus problem by not installing them. Why don't you try that?

If it hurts when you put your hand in a fire - maybe it would be a good idea not to put your hand in the fire.

Old guy

Others think, that a discussion can lead to a better understanding.

Yours, VB.

Discussions usually are only worthwhile when the parties involved are willing to expand their knowledge/understanding. dfinc has demonstrated several times that this doesn't apply to him.

Plus, his postings are still WAY off-topic in this group.

cu

59cobalt

O, Old boy, no doubt, im the one hehehehe

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Removal tools (or instructions for manual removal) are no solution to an infection, particularly not with malware that may download more malware or may give an attacker remote access. One can never be sure what else was modified on the system and thus can never be certain that the malware was removed entirely.

cu

59cobalt

Manual removal dose work

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:18:37 -0700, dfinc did cat :

uh, do you mean that you really need a manual to guide you on how to get you dose while working your personal tool

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. The problem (which obviosly still eludes your grasp) is that you can't distinguish the cases where it does from those where it doesn't. Meaning that your only safe way back to a clean system is to flatten and rebuild.

cu

59cobalt