Windows woes

[Walter Bright]

Dave wrote:
> In article <e0io88$22jc$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>> 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).

I have no idea how it got on. Being a trojan, I must have run something. 
I'm usually very careful about not running anything I am not sure of, 
careful enough that this is the first virus/trojan I've had in 10 years.

I'm almost to the point of using a separate sacrificial machine for web 
surfing.