Steve said:
One observation that I've made in cleaning some kinds of bugs is that a
repeated scan with Microsoft Antispyware will find more to remove.
That's a good suggestion, Bill. Thanks.
An interesting test would be to do the safe mode deep scan with both
Microsoft antispyware and antivirus, repeating both until each scans clean.
Then see what the others come up with. I'm not sure it would be nothing but
cookies, but I'd be surprised if it included anything executable.
I'll try to do that the next time I clean up a client's computer,
without running up the bill too much.
With new computers available for under $400, I'm reluctant to charge
more than $150-200 for cleaning up a computer.[/QUOTE]
if they want to replace with a cheap computer
and unless customers want to be buying new computers once a week, they
still have to setup defenses for the new computer. so $400 isn't the
real cost for a clean computer.
I've had little experience with infection. MSAS works only on XP (and 2k
i assume?).
for an old 450MHz computer (with neglected/outdated ad-aware and CA AV +
ZA free v4.x) i used spybot. it got most things (70 or 80 non-mru items)
then ad-aware SE may have found a few more plops of turdware. i can't
recall. i assume reversing the scan sequence would have given similar
"reverse" statistics.
i didn't have time to do more (such as MBSA), besides trying to
lockdown settings (put up defenses within existing settings).