David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "Ertugrul Söylemez" <es@ertes.de>
>
>
> |
> | He is right in that flattening and rebuilding the system is the only way
> | to _guarantee_ that all malware has been removed.
> |
> | Regards,
> | Ertugrul.
> |
>
> For ISTbar ?
>
> That's like swatting a fly with a sledge hammer. Way overboard. We are not talking about a
> password stealing Trojan with RootKit techniques. We are just talking about minor,
> annoying, adware program.


No. We're talking about the unknown malware that installed ISTbar. We're
talking about the unknown malware that was installed by ISTbar. We're
talking about the unknown malware that was installed aisde from ISTbar.
We're talking about the malware that got in through the same vulnerability
as ISTbar.

Heck, we're not even sure that it's the same ISTbar as the analysts had,
much less that their analysis was complete.