Sorry, what was the website the adware is referring to maybe the specific cleaning tool is listed in secunia or symantec<br><br>http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/removaltools.jsp<br><br>also spybot search and destroy is pretty good at blocking bad websites. they call it innoculating IE by filling in the blocked website list for you<br><br>http://www.safer-networking.org/<br><br><b><i>"Emerson, Tom" <Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > -----Original Message----- Of Claude Felizardo<br>> On 9/5/06, Alex Roston <tungtung@pacbell.net> wrote:<br>> > [...] I haven't fooled with it <br>> > lately, but at one point it was possible to do a "hot" reinstall of <br>> > Windows, and this didn't work very well for replacing files <br>> which had <br>> > been deliberately buggered.<br>> <br>> Hang on,
are you saying it is possible to reinstall windoze <br>> on top of an existing system and not have to reinstall all of <br>> your apps? I mean I thought one of the problems with windoze <br>> is that it's still difficult to determine if your data files <br>> are stored in a subdirectory of the App or in one of the "My <br>> blah" folder. Can you repair in place?<br><br>Well, I can see two (or more) problems with this approach: as I<br>understand it, every application "registers" itself in the registry<br>during installation, if you re-install, wouldn't it re-write the<br>registry from scratch? (meaning you'll have the executables "in place"<br>for your userland apps, but windows wouldn't be "aware" of them) If it<br>doesn't rewrite the registry, anything "hidden" in the registry that<br>triggers an infection will still be there (i.e., anything defined to<br>"run at boot time")<br><br>Secondly, if a non-microsoft application has been contaminated, and
that<br>in turn contaminates system files (so as to hide itself from scans), you<br>haven't actually eliminated the problem (the trojan is still out<br>there...) I suppose, though, the system would be "innoculated" in a<br>sense in that some viruses will check before infecting, so the system<br>*may* appear infected and the virus doesn't re-infect the system. Of<br>course, the virus writer might take the easy route and ALWAYS infects<br>every time it runs, but that's another matter entirely...<br></tungtung@pacbell.net></blockquote><br>