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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2009

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

-Brian Wilson Kernighan

I had the pleasure of being infected by the Vundo virus. It’s a real pain in the apple to remove. The problem with modern viruses/malware is they hook into your system and cannot be deleted or haulted. This poses a problem for virus scanners when it comes to removing them from your system. With that being said, I tried following virus/malware scanners to remove Vundo.

• McAfee (failed)
• Nortons (failed)
• AVG (failed)
• Ad-Aware (failed)
• OSAM (success!)

I spent about 3 hours before I came across OSAM. I wish I had found it right away! Including the installation of their software it took about 5 minutes to cure my system. That sure beats 3 hours. They also had a nice write-up on how to remove Vundo.

I must note that all of the virus scanners found the virus but, with the exception of OSAM, none of them were successful in removing it.

I hope everyone has happy holidays and gets lots of presents they don’t want so they can give them to me. That’s it.

Need my help? Submit a ticket to cases@mluker.fogbugz.com.