http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=199065
A system once compromised, remains to be compromised forever, no matter what you do in repairs.
The only reasonable option is to format and reinstall, either manually or by an old, beyond-doubt image. What you get in messages that something in cleaning or repairing was successful, is just this: a message
by the corrupted system. You can never be sure whether you can trust that message or not.
When you get hit by infections, there is only one thing to do: format and reinstall.
I'm happy that when I left Explorer some weeks ago due to the explorer heavy security leak back then, I went for Opera. Only Chrome I also considered, but it has greater market share which makes it more attractive an object of attacks, and I did not wish to constantly mod against privacy abuse by Google, which is an issue with Chrome.
Explorer 9 is better than its reputation. But due to its market share, it attracts many attacks. So does Firefox. So does Chrome.
Opera has only 2% or less in market share. Maybe I should stop advertizing it, so that it may stay like that fopr long time to come.
Also: use a sandbox. Use a payware firewall-anti-virus suite. Use an additional malware scanner - the good ones are optimized for running along virus scanners, and they find stuff the AV does not. The three or four problem I had in past years, all were triggered not by my AV, but the malware scanner. Switch off ActiveX, cookies, Java, be very careful what kind of active scripting to allow.
The more comfortable your browser is tuned, the more unsecure it is.
