Windows woes

[Kevin Bealer]

In article <e0jqoa$20i$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>
>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.

Apologies if you already explained and I missed it - how did you test for a
rootkit / vm?

Kevin