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New infection or re-activated old infection

#1 User is offline   zomba 

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Posted 16 November 2009 - 02:03 PM

Hi,
If a Windows XP machine has been disinfected (in this case by Malwarebytes and SuperAntivirus) and then, 5 days later, shows signs of infection, is it possible to determine if the machine has been re-infected by recent activities of the user, or by remnants of the old infection that were not properly removed?

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Posted 16 November 2009 - 05:10 PM

With the infections that are making the rounds now, I would have to say that you probably never got rid of the whole thing
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 09:34 AM

Hi Mark,
Yes, that's the feeling I had "in the water" but I wondered if I could read anything into the 5-day delay before the re-infection became evident.
Not so eh?
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