Site Privacy issues

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, John Foust wrote:

> But spyware tools are nowhere where they need to be.  I'd love to
> have a boot CD that would let me scan and clean without needing to
> actually install and clean on the infected system, as well as tools
> that could operate on a non-active non-booted hard disk in the system.
> All of today's tools are focused on running live in the infected
> system in order to scan the registry, BHOs, and processes
> running in the system.

It helps to boot into Safe Mode (with networking enabled).  I fought one
particular bit of spyware that would regenerate itself 10 seconds after
you deleted it's files.  I searched and searched and searched and found
nothing about it on the web, and so assumed it was some newfangled alien
technology from the future.

I finally had to boot into Safe Mode and manual crawl through the registry
deleting every last bit of evidence of its existence.  What a pain in the
ass that was.  HijackThis! would have been helpful if I'd known about it
then.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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