On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:56:25PM -0700, Heidi Henry wrote: > I also understand this may not remove some of these types of programs > until a complete format is done, which I really do not want to do, > so.....if anyone has dealt with this and found another solution..... Indeed, it _is_ possible for programs to hide themselves in the master boot record, or partition boot records. However, they are unlikely to be highly sophisticated programs. When Crispin recommended re-installing Windows, he probably meant doing a re-format in the process -- if your little spyware program has hidden itself in word's executable, or your winamp, or any of the other thousand programs on your computer, simply re-installing windows ontop of your current machine won't help. You've got to do a complete reformat, re-install all your applications from CD, and retrieve your data from your last known-good backup. Be sure that you restore only data, and not executable content, because it might have already tainted your backups. Sorry. -- http://immunix.org/
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