Rogue antivirus

tom982 · 25 Oct 2011

Corrine said:

tom982 said:

RKill is great little tool but, like most malware removal tools, it shouldn't be used unless under instruction from a trained professional

As an FYI, RKill isn't a malware removal tool. It is a tool developed by Grinler (Bleeping Computer) to stop rogue processes, enabling a tools such as MBAM and SAS to run. More information: RKill - What it does and What it Doesn't - A brief introduction to the program

Oops

My mistake. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

jimbo45 · 25 Oct 2011

Hi there
IF you are unfortunate enough to get your computer infected IMO you only have two choices to make.

1) Re-install the whole OS again.
2) restore an image from the last known Virus Free date.

Disinfecting a computer using the same infected computer makes utterly NO SENSE. For starters can you be sure that the dis-infection process is reported correctly --who knows what the Virus has done --.

Would you say you are suffering from flu allow a doctor to visit you when the doctor himself is suffering from say another highly contagious disease -- I hope not.

Again this makes it imperative you keep REGULAR BACKUPS and ideally separate the OS / apps from your data via separate partitions.

Cheers
jimbo