[pchelpers] Re: Read only persisting

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> Monday, November 17, 2008, 4:13:28 PM, you wrote:
> 
> GTC> Great news, John. I'm glad you didn't have wipe the hard drive.
> 
> He could have always done a complete backup, wiped the drive, then
> restored, sans the errant file.
> 
> John, were you having this problem while booting from the customer's
> hard drive?  Your offline scan method should work in this case also,
> although you might still have to take ownership
> 
It's ok now. The problem was a persistent read only attribute on the 
infectious file. Using shredder soon put an end to that. It is no 
respecter of write permissions.
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