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[ewf]

That's not the only thing,

               I once thought that erasing filesystems gave you the 
complete solution, but I
learned recently that, (especially newer computers), have electrically 
alterable firmware
chips that can become contamenated and therefore have to be 
removed/replaced. Another-
words the BIOS area of a computer is now susceptable to unauthorized 
intrusion.

                                                                        
                                                                      Erich

                                                                        
                                     

Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:

>On 16 Jun 2004 at 4:03, johngalt  wrote:
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>>Unless the system is not stable and too much trouble to fix, blowing away the
>>file system and starting over is a NooB sort of solution. 
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>I think you'll find that many sysadmins consider this to be the ONLY solution 
>when you have a system which has been rooted.  And since WinBoxen users mostly 
>run as root, that may be the only way to ensure you don't have some unknown 
>rootkit running that will re-0wn their system when you put it back online.
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>Angus Scott-Fleming
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