Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

[Tyson Sawyer]

Ben Scott wrote:
> The problem is that if you've had a full system compromise
> (whether you call your superuser "root", Administrator, or
> SUPERVISOR), you can no longer trust the computer to check itself. 
> The attacker can subvert the system to lie to you about itself.

How about boot disks that have been premade to check your system and 
identify suspect files?  This way the compromised filesystem isn't 
checking itself although the computer is checking itself.

...could avoid a full, from scratch, reinstall.

Cheers!
Ty

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Tyson D Sawyer

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