

Could you please explain step by step " I switched back to bartpe and loaded the corresponding registry hives.

Since i never used this BartPE tool before I did not get the registry editing part. I am exhausted and i despaired untill i see your post. I have more than 5- 6 tools to delete the file but it regenerates.

I tried pretty much everything since last week. Listen to the podcast I recommended previously, if you realised how sophisticated some of these got you'd realise your no malware cleaning expert. I wasn't talking about dealing with a client or making extra money, I was talking in terms of what I would like, knowing it was truly secure, if it is a client I am dealing with I will still often put their security at the forefront for your mistake of missing a little something can be a trojan reinstating itself within the system a keylogger installed and their banking information with a cracker/criminal. Your kidding yourself if you think you can conclusively clean a virus invested machine 5 years ago yes you could, but viruses are so sophisticated these days that you've got no chance of being 100% it's secure from then on. > "when you're actually good at malware cleanup" Unfortunatly I don't think you are, if you understood how deep root-kits can dig themselves into your kernel you'd realise that i was capable of being the first thing to boot, allowing them to hide themselves from the file-system and make them un-scannable by AV tools. > "I'm fully aware of the risk of residual infection" It's the secure-man's way of dealing with an infected system. "going with reinstall first is just the lazy man's way of "dealing" with a problem"
