Comment Re:How to solve these problems. (Score 1) 272
"You wiped a computer because of spyware?"
Isn't the standard procedure for fixing a compromised box (windows or *nix) reinstalling and restoring from backups?
And you think safe mode will save you? Assuming the box was compromised as root (or Administrator), ANYTHING on the box could have been modified...how are you going to use safe mode to replace a spyware-modified kernel (for example: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/192 0244&tid=201&tid=218)
Isn't the standard procedure for fixing a compromised box (windows or *nix) reinstalling and restoring from backups?
And you think safe mode will save you? Assuming the box was compromised as root (or Administrator), ANYTHING on the box could have been modified...how are you going to use safe mode to replace a spyware-modified kernel (for example: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/19
