On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:20:39 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 9/1/2009 9:22 PM r said... >> On Sep 1, 10:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano >>> Took me two weeks of elapsed time and around 30 hours of effort to >>> remove those suckers from the machine. Now I run Linux, behind two >>> firewalls. >> >> Takes me less than one hour to rebuild my system > > If that's your job (as it's sometimes mine) then that sounds about > right. Otherwise, you must have a lot of practice rebuilding!
I could have nuked the machine and rebuilt it from scratch, but I couldn't find my WinXP original media. Besides, when I started the process, I had no idea it would take so long. I learned one thing though. System Restore sounds like a good idea, but in my experience it's only good for restoring malware when you reboot. (I won't tell you how many times I deleted the same spyware apps before I worked out what was happening. Grrr arrghhhh.) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
