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Re: The antivirus experience

Subject: Re: The antivirus experience
From: Kayman
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:36:53 +0700
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:08:46 GMT, Jim S wrote:

> I *stupidly* opened a zipped attachment - I know - I know (but there was a
> reason I won't go into). It contained win32-trojan.gen{other}
> I have used Avast for years now and always sung its praises, however
> although Avast did flag the virus and shout at me (as it does), whatever
> action I took >delete>repair>put-in-vault or whatever, the trojan kept
> coming back on reboot. The same was true about SpybotS&D.
> In the end I downloaded SuperAntiSpyware free and it removed the trojan in
> a trice.
> The question is: would AVG have done any better?
> Windows XP SP3

"The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx 

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