*Whimper...*

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

One small unassuming Dell PC... XP Home, can't log on, gives a "system files corrupt" error.

Oh yes, I've seen this one before... Pull hard drive, clean the VX2/Trojan out of system32 and the registry. Fuck you very much, NicTech Networks.

Now it boots. But oh, man...

Kill2Me removed the rest of VX2/Look2Me.
CWShredder found 3 variants.
I ripped 78 things out with HijackThis...

and even after all that...

Ad-Aware found 1759 problems.

Nuke. From. Orbit.

Make that 1800 problems. Ad-aware couldn't get 'em all on the first pass.
And another trip thru HijackThis. Ad-Aware does NOT catch everything!

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[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

Nuke. From. Orbit.

it's the only way to be sure.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Wow. I shudder at the thought. Well, people like him keep us in business, eh?

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

*shudders* All authors of spyware should be hung by their toenails and flayed.

I spent three hours cleaning Second Thought off of my work computer on Monday. This is after the couple of tries on Friday. It took booting into safe mode, running AdAware and Spybot, deleting stuff by hand, then rebooting and running Hijack this and also the Startup program lister to find all the crap.

One website. I went to ONE non-work-related website and this is what I get!

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Most of the people that wrote viruses 10-20 years ago are the people that now are most actively hunting down spyware-authors for taking their beautiful inventions and creating something truly malicious with them.

At least, that's what I'd like to think.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I stopped using Internet Exploiter several years back...