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Posted by Gerald Vogt on March 6, 2005, 2:57 pm
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> Suggestions and methods to clean up this mess and to keep it clean are most
> welcome. Does the XP Firewall have a DMZ for game playing? Is there a site
Sorry, but the only reasonable thing in this situation seems to be a
complete reformat and fresh installation from CD. If the computer is
well infested it will be impossible to find and fix everything. Usually
backdoors of one malware will be quickly exploited by other malware and
so on. Each malware digs into system to make sure it is not easily
removed. The some of many malware just makes it more or less impossible
to fix that. So IMHO unless you are a malware-removal-pro I would say
that once you have 10+ malware programs on your computer you have a
close to 0% probability to get everything removed...
Regarding the XP firewall, you don't need a DMZ as you are connected to
the net anyway. You have to open the ports of the application that
requires to listen to the internet. That's should be it. Anything else
security-wise afterwards depends on how secure and safe the running
software is. I suppose there are many game servers applications out
there that silently implement back doors...
Gerald
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