From: "bealoid" <signup@bealoid.co.uk>


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| So, by not following safe hex, the OP has installed at least one mild
| malware - ISTbar, but who knows what else he picked up? along the way?
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| I guess the OP could decide if they were foolish once, or foolish a few
| times and got caught once, or have been foolish many times, and they
| don't know what else is on their machine.
|
| I'll agree that this mild malware could probably be removed simply. But
| flattening and rebuilding gives the OP a chance to improve their security
| model. Install all the patches, install some proper AV, sort out the
| toy-firewalls, tell the kids not to surf pr0n sites, etc.

Chances are the user will repeat the same mistakes. At least with attempting to remove the
malware the user will learn more about it (malware in general) and will tend to be more
proactive.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp