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<blockquote data-quote="Andrezj" data-source="post: 1021827" data-attributes="member: 97580"><p>no security product removal is 100% reliable, accurate or complete; once there is an infection the system (malware running on the system; not just a malicious file sitting in some directory doing nothing), that system can no longer be trusted and the user should perform a clean install of the operating system</p><p></p><p></p><p>file disinfection is not 100% reliable, accurate or complete from any security product; once the file has been infected it can no longer be trusted and the user needs to get rid of it</p><p></p><p></p><p>any removal tool - portable utility, online removal, removal by boot-script, antivirus boot-loading cd\usb - none of them are reliable enough to trust a machine after it has been infected (infection actively running or has run on the system); the user should perform a clean install of the operating system</p><p></p><p>oh, i'm sure people do not want to hear this, but it one thing to play with security software to observe the quality of malware removal, it is an entirely different matter when it is a real-world infection on a production machine where users perform online financial transactions and other activities involving valuable personal data</p><p></p><p>if a user is relying upon security software removal instead of clean installing the operating system, then they're already beat - by the time the removal happens the malware could already have forwarded the public ip address, used arp to ping the manufacturer of the default gateway (router), performed a network ping sweep, stolen cached passwords and license keys, surreptitiously enabled features or configurations that give a threat actor full access (despite the malware detection), etc</p><p></p><p>too little, too late</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrezj, post: 1021827, member: 97580"] no security product removal is 100% reliable, accurate or complete; once there is an infection the system (malware running on the system; not just a malicious file sitting in some directory doing nothing), that system can no longer be trusted and the user should perform a clean install of the operating system file disinfection is not 100% reliable, accurate or complete from any security product; once the file has been infected it can no longer be trusted and the user needs to get rid of it any removal tool - portable utility, online removal, removal by boot-script, antivirus boot-loading cd\usb - none of them are reliable enough to trust a machine after it has been infected (infection actively running or has run on the system); the user should perform a clean install of the operating system oh, i'm sure people do not want to hear this, but it one thing to play with security software to observe the quality of malware removal, it is an entirely different matter when it is a real-world infection on a production machine where users perform online financial transactions and other activities involving valuable personal data if a user is relying upon security software removal instead of clean installing the operating system, then they're already beat - by the time the removal happens the malware could already have forwarded the public ip address, used arp to ping the manufacturer of the default gateway (router), performed a network ping sweep, stolen cached passwords and license keys, surreptitiously enabled features or configurations that give a threat actor full access (despite the malware detection), etc too little, too late [/QUOTE]
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