On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:06 -0400, Andy Walker
<awalker@nspank.invalid> wrote:

>kurt wismer wrote:
>
>>Andy Walker wrote:
>>> Kayman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Educational viewing!
>>>> Mark Russinovich - Advanced Malware Cleaning
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotli...px?videoid=359
>>>
>>> It is definitely worth the time watching this - even if you are
>>> already familiar with techniques for eliminating malware. Mark
>>> Russinovich is one of the primary contributors at Sysinternals (he now
>>> works for M$). The only drawback to watching this is having to
>>> install M$ Silverlight in order to view it.
>>
>>think i'll wait 'till someone puts it on youtube... i need a better
>>reason than a single video in order to justify exposing my browser to a
>>new attack vector (even if i do have whitelisting and sandboxing working
>>in my favour)...
>
>The funny thing is, I watched it on my Vista Business laptop, and it
>did not download the Silverlight add-in but instead asked me "do you
>want to activate Silverlight". It appears that M$ must have added
>Silverlight in one of its automatic updates (I allow automatic update
>and installation on that particular machine). I've been closing that
>annoying pop-up on the M$ site for what seems like months to avoid
>loading it and don't have any intention of loading it on any of my
>other Windows machines.


Maybe we need a scanner for junk that MS install that you don't want.