Re: Does clean install of XP kill all malware?
- From: NoStop <nostop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:00:03 GMT
After sticking his head out from his XP firewall, Zadig Galbaras had this to
say:
> Sorry Kerry but the computer was not, I repeat not, connected to the
> internet.
> This OS was Win2000.
> I reinstalled three times, and at the last try I did a format of the
> harddisk. The virus persisted.
> I am no expert, but after three clean installation of an OS I thought any
> virus was gone.
>
> I then learned that this version of the virus only infected Win2000
> computers.
> Therefore I, in the early morning hours, begat a clean install of my
> private WinXP, and then a clean install of Win2k.
> That made the virus go away.
>
> All this with no connection to the web!
> I do not connect to the web before an updated viruskiller service is
> established and working.
The Internet is much more than just the Web. If you have a cable modem
connected to the Internet and your computer is connected to that cable
modem, then your computer is connected to the Internet regardless whether
you connect to the Web.
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