Re: Uninstall Office 2007, reformat HDD, and re-install using the same license?

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Simion32 <Simion32.2rh63h@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

XS11E;2895066 Wrote:

Formatting your HD to get rid of viruses is like burning down
your house to get rid of cockroaches. The minute you rebuild the
roaches will be back in your new house and so will your viruses
in your new installation. Do a scan and get rid of them.

What are you using for a virus scanner? What for malware
scanning?

I am using
System Mechanic Professional 6 which comes with Kaspersky Anti
Virus Personal and Kaspersky Anti-Hacker. Also using DaimondCS
ProcessGaurd.

I have ran virus scans several times and it found nothing. I also
tried UnHackMe to get rid of rootkits, but it's not a rootkit.

So WHY do you think you have a virus?

I would rather reformat my hard drive to eliminate all traces of
viruses, then install some (more) security/anti-malware programs
*before* connecting to the internet again.
Which programs would you recommend I use?

Kaspersky is rated VERY good. I use AVG free for Viruses, I don't
think it's any better than Kaspersky. I use Spybot S&D for other
malware and Ad-Aware as an additional malware scanner.

There are on-line scans you can use if you think Kaspersky is missing
something, I've had good results with Panda here:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan There are other online
scans, Google will find them for you.

Besides, I am thinking about re-partitioning my HDD so that I can
install other OS's or a "recovery" installation. My OS disk is an
OEM one so it doesn't have recovery console.

You can re-partition w/o formatting or losing anything. You can't do
it with Windows but aftermarket software will do so. I use Partition
Commander, others like Partition Magic and there are others.


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