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<blockquote data-quote="Dex4Sure" data-source="post: 856900" data-attributes="member: 79841">Cleaned up countless systems in the past with malware removal tools + hunting down registry modifications manually, and not a security professional myself... Never had complaints from people whose machines I cleaned afterwards. Sure, really severe infections better professional takes over (especially in business side due to very sensitive and important data in question), but malware removal tools work pretty well these days for home user.Reminds me bit of an argument that unless you code in assembly, you&#039;re a noob because compilers will never beat very skilled assembly programmer... Might be true, but fact of the matter is higher level programming languages exist for a very good reason, as do malware removal tools. Might be you need to finish the cleaning manually, but a lot of times you actually don&#039;t need to anymore.And its a general rule you should always do back ups. Not just for security, but if Windows update decides to wipe all your data, at least its backed up (actually happened once to me, but had a back up to restore from).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dex4Sure, post: 856900, member: 79841"] Cleaned up countless systems in the past with malware removal tools + hunting down registry modifications manually, and not a security professional myself... Never had complaints from people whose machines I cleaned afterwards. Sure, really severe infections better professional takes over (especially in business side due to very sensitive and important data in question), but malware removal tools work pretty well these days for home user. Reminds me bit of an argument that unless you code in assembly, you're a noob because compilers will never beat very skilled assembly programmer... Might be true, but fact of the matter is higher level programming languages exist for a very good reason, as do malware removal tools. Might be you need to finish the cleaning manually, but a lot of times you actually don't need to anymore. And its a general rule you should always do back ups. Not just for security, but if Windows update decides to wipe all your data, at least its backed up (actually happened once to me, but had a back up to restore from). [/QUOTE]

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