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On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:58:47 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:34:39 -0400, joevan
><>wrote:
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>>On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:45:46 -0500, "don" <> wrote:
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>>>If I back up my harddrive personal files..... will Vundo just migrate to my
>>>backups? Or does it mainly stay resident in my browsers?
>>>
>>>
>>I don't recall if it has been mentioned in this thread, but have you
>>been able to get on line with internet explorer and use an online av
>>to scan you computer. I once used kaspersky, the online version to
>>remove over 300 viruses from a machine. It got all but a few, enough
>>so that I could then install an av program on it. It then found and
>>deleted the last few viruses that were there.
>
>I purposely infected a test PC with Virtumondo a couple years back to
>test out some ways to clean it. The only effective way was to use a
>boot cd with an a/v program that could clean vundo. Even in the safe
>mode vundo is stealthy to a/v products and just repairs/replicates
>itself. Someone suggested placing the drive in a USB enclosure and
>scanning it on another machine. That's a decent idea.
Wow that is some mean bit of crap to have on a machine. I am curious
about where you found the virus. Did you do a google search and
download it or is it so common that it just comes to one by magic?
Who and what creates such garbage and for what reason???