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jen wrote:
>Please try to
>keep up...

Why bother to 'keep up'
with the unwashed masses of infected losers?

~BD~

"jen" <> wrote in message
news:ryN7k.11262$.. .
> "Bushy" <> wrote in message
> news:hIL7k.13862$.au...
>> Just had a nasty run in with this trojan. web searches tell me the best
>> and most effective way of being rid of it for sure is a reinstall and
>> reformat. Okay, i'll cop that. i shouldn;t have been running dodgy bits
>> of software off the internet.
>>
>> My question is if anyone can point me to statistics or comments about
>> flec006.exe effectiveness rate? i've read it is an identity theft/
>> phishing trojan, and i want to know how likely it is that my details are
>> compromised. i've already changed passwords for anything financial in
>> nature, but should i go to the extent of contacting the banks and having
>> account numbers changed, credit card numbers changed etc etc?
>
> Yes! You have a Bagle variant. See here:
>
> FLEC006.EXE - Dangerous:
>
> Troj/Bagle-KP:
>
>
> -jen
>

Hi -jen!

I read the Major Geeks thread you posted with interest. Perhaps the most
pertinent point, IMO, made by the 'helper' - Chaslang' - was:-

"That is really the safest thing to do based on the infections you had. Also
DO NOT just reinstall over your current version of Windows. You MUST DELETE
YOUR PARTITION, re-partition, format, and then reinstall from scratch to be
sure you are clean. Just a simple reinstalling could leave things hanging
around."

I'm fairly confident that many people with a single, partitioned, hard drive
will simply wipe their C: drive, re-install Windows and think they are
starting afresh - clean! Any malware 'worth its salt' will simply hide on
another partition and then 'jump back' again onto C: once Windows has been
re-installed. That is how I read matters in simple terms. Do you agree? TIA

Dave