Windows woes

[Dave]

In article <e0io88$22jc$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>Walter Bright wrote:
>> At this point, it was apparent that tech support had no idea why this was 
>> happening, and I was beginning to worry there was either a rootkit 
>> installed, or there was just creeping corruption going on. I gave up on 
>> Microsoft tech support, and decided to reinstall Windows.
>
>Turns out, I did have a trojan rootkit on my system. arrgh!

Any idea how that happened / made it onto your system? (it has me worried that
virus scanning didn't pick it up).

- Dave