Aaaargh!

[The Dong]

Mikael Hansson wrote:
> I'm up and running again, this time with both knuckles and belts. The 
> strange thing is how I could get the virus the second time with a 
> totally updated system, antivirus and only programs from trusted sources 
> installed.

Could be your malicious program 'called home' and laid your IP open to 
particular attacks, which were still vulnerable. Just a wild guess. More 
likely there were remnants of the infection somewhere.

I've installed XP so many times, but luckily this install has been rock 
solid for such a long time (no SP3, Furryfox and Thunderpants and a lot 
stripped out; services to near minimum)

I've installed XP so many times that I've also witnessed the early days 
of IE on it, where machines could be infected with very nasty crap 
within minutes of installing the new OS and surfing with IE...

I am dreading the day where the newer 64bit OS's have so much to offer 
to resist, because I will have to upgrade all audio hardware (which I 
must remember to use more often)

;)