Vundo Removed For First Time User- Brilliant!

I spent the last 10 days trying to rid my girlfriend's laptop from a very unpleasant variant of Vundo. Only when I stumbled across this site (having unsuccessfully tried various others) and religiously followed the Read Me First Guide did I manage to shake it off. So very many thanks indeed!

I had to run through the guide 3-4 times to finally come clean, and then after running CCleaner, it was still necessary to delete a whole bunch of spurious files left in various places. I then had to fix the Registry to get MS Word and MS Photo Editor to work.

The guide is outstanding. Firstly in terms of tool selection and clarity about how to run them, and secondly by enforcing method and discipline providing the confidence to go in and fix things in areas where previously I wouldn't have dared to tread.

Since I deinstalled Symantec and installed the firewall, anti virus and spyware recommended the performance has gone through the roof. No more ~LUCOMS, or the other two crazy Symantec processes periodically eating 100% of the CPU. I'm in the process of doing exactly the same to my other PCs. It seems to me a rather poor show that not only does the paid for Symantec protection software eat vast amounts of performance, but it doesn't work. It allowed the infection in in the first place, and then its Vundo fix software was completely useless.

Although all the tools now run clean I still have a nagging doubt that there is still something lurking somewhere, or that the Registry is still screwed up (the MS Photo Editor only came to light when the attempted opening of an email attachment failed).

Is there anything else I should/could do to check I'm clean, or am I now just chasing phantoms?

 

:wave and welcome to MG's..