From: "Andy Walker" <awalker@nspank.invalid>

| Li'l Abner wrote:

>>"siljaline" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in news:i9673q$ecg$1@news.eternal-
>>september.org:

>>> http://www.dban.org/

>>I didn't have to get *that* violent! There was a recovery partion. I put it
>>back to the original factory image, got rid of Norton, got all the Windows
>>updates, installed Avira, copied his documents back (they were clean), and
>>the owner has picked it up.

| So what are you going to do if the recovery partition had a
| modification to load a rootkit and the rootkit loads malware from the
| infected disk space that was not wiped when you reinstalled? At this
| point you cannot claim with certainty that they are not still
| infected.

Which RootKit do you think can/will do this Andy or is this precautionary speculation ?

--
Dave
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