part 2 of implayok virus

Sorry for the late follow up. Been busy after my network went up.

Okay how to re-install your system knowing that some of your installer files for your peripherals may already have rootkit viral keys in them.

1) Before re-installing your OS make sure you have with you, preferrably in your hard drive, a legal copy of a virus cleaner. I strongly suggest AVIRA.

2) Re-install your OS and only the basic drivers especially your network card driver. If you're installing windows XP with sp2, it may not have the latest security updates so better make sure you're not connected to the Internet when re-installing. Also, it is best to have your hard drive partitioned. Leave around 50-80GB for your system drive (the drive that will house your windows system). save all your data files to another partition which appears as another drive letter. So that next time a virus strikes, you will just format your system drive and not your data drive. I'm assuming you already know how to install your OS

3) after you've installed your OS and basic drivers, install AVIRA. Avira will require you to connect to the internet to register your software. This is the only time that you will connect to the internet and follow the remaining steps of the installation. After AVIRA is fully installed, unplug your internet again and do a full system scan as AVIRA will suggest after installing.

4) when your OS prompts you to switch on your firewall, your auto updates and others, do it. then restart as you plug into the internet again so your OS can update itself in case as I've mentioned it doesn't have the latest security updates.

5) now that you have avira, and now that avira has scanned your system and hopefully has gotten rid of all the sleeping virus in your system, you can now install all the other software that you need.

6) I suggest that you install norton ghost. There is a freeware version http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/soft/874742/ and it's the only thing i like about norton. This will allow you to create an image file so that you will just restore and no need to reinstall all the software that you've installed.

If you have any questions, blog it :-) ciao!