silly user

So, Tuesday I spend 12 hours dealing with a malware infestation.

silly user installed mysearchbar toolbar into IE.
which installed:
Trojan FakeAlert.M
Trojan Generic7.QAQ [ 8 instances ]

what was nice was that after the malware wouldn’t remove through ripping it out of the registry, deleting the installed files etc, that a clean new install with AVG 8 found the malware installers in the data backup before they were able to re-infest the system.