Having spent the last three hours of my life removing a nasty Vundo virus from a PC, I think I am ready.
This Vundo variant went through the PC AV defenses like a magnum round through cardboard. Machine was all patched and updated and running the latest and greatest trend micro AV.
One stupid user click and Trend AV kept identifying and quarintine more and more files as this bugger reinstalls itself automatically.
And of course the virus dlls hook themselves to the winlogon process, like what that alien-monster-bastard did to the sled-dogs in that 1983 film with Kurt Rusell at the North Pole (the Thing). So you cannot just delete it, nooooo that would be too easy. Nor can you delete it in safe mode.
//begin rant//
WHY do us PC users have to resort to using tools like process explorer and movefile on a fully patched PC running current AV software??? I’ve worked with these dammed PCs for over 20 years, and why is it so difficult to protect the core critical processes of Windows (Winlogon?? Explorer??? Hellloooooooooo).
Why I need to spend hours cleaning out registry keys and playing hide-and-seek with some evil-bastard polymorphic trojan virus???
//end rant//
So should I get my Mac pro from the apple store or Best buy? Any shopping tips?
