Finally!

[plonq]

I set up Symantec's online virus scan and let it run overnight.  In spite of all the other scans I have run on this machine, it found 4 more Trojans on the computer.  I think it was just finding some straggler elements of what I had removed earlier.  I manually deleted the four files and then put the machine through a short battery of tests to make sure that everything still worked.

The machine is now going through a final defrag before I return it to its owner with a clean bill of health.  I instructed him to break his kids' fingers if he catches them trying to install KaZaA on the machine again.

Comments

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Heh - that's the first time I've been accused of being a Pro. I'm not even in IT. I've just built, configured and fixed enough machines over time to have picked up a few tricks. I'm one of those users that the real Pros hate because I know just enough to be dangerous.

[wabbitcalif.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Hey, that's still more than I've done with a tower!