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Posted by Sebastian G. on December 12, 2007, 5:11 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options Todd H. wrote:
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>> ridha wrote:
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>>> Hello I have a virus in my Pc there are a message will appear in top
>>> of each
>>> tool bar for every windows in O.S. this message is *BLUE STAR* and I am
>>> us Symantec antivirus.
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>>> Any suggestion to How can erase this virus
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>> Why is this even a question?
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> [useful portion of Sebastian's post begins here
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>> Flattening and rebuilding is the only viable option at all.
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> It's true. You can't trust the system any long after it's been
> infected with malware. The fastest way back to happy status is
> rebuilding the box from original media.
If he ran as a non-admin user, then flattening and rebuilding the user
account together will all the programs and data he had access to would be
sufficient. The problem hereby is that he ran Symantec software, so most
likely the system already exploited one of its privileged services directly,
and even if not it could still trivially escalate privileges.
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