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(Unverified)Sep 11th 2008 1:07PM
Totally irresponsible to suggest untrained users run ComboFix in safe mode without proper instructions. It's far too powerful to be used willy-nilly.
As Ben above stated from the quote, it's not a tool to be taken lightly by any stretch.
The author ought to have done some more homework before recommending this tool be used. Someone will be killing an OS pretty quick with this sort of recommendation. It's not anything like any tool that's ever been developed.
And more times than not, it's not really required for most of these rogue infections. Using MBAM and\or Smitfraud Fix as also suggested will kill 99% of these far better than Ad-Aware & Spybot Search & Destroy.
@ Fred Thompson:
This tool is by no means 'sloppily designed', quite the opposite in fact. The developer has an incredible knowledge of how Windows works and just as importantly, how malware works. He tests each and every release infinitely and has other trained expert malware researchers test it also.
leeSep 11th 2008 1:11PM
Thanks for the tips.
When you say "might have done some homework," I use ComboFix frequently and I monitor what it does with various registry/system file watchers and check log files after. I've never had issues with it.
I have had Smitfraud and MBAM leave remnants, however.