Transplant surgery for your infected hard drive

What do you do when the spyware you're trying to pluck free from a hard drive is smarter than it looks? If you're most people, something drastic involving extra money, time, or hired professionals. If you're Ravi, something else entirely.

Find out the trick up Ravi's sleeve in this week's Spyware Horror Story.

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Jessica Dolcourt reviews the latest and greatest smartphone apps, in addition to a healthy dose of Windows software. E-mail Jessica and follow her on Twitter.

Topics:: Security and spyware

Tags:: Spyware Horror Story,; malware,; virus,; spyware

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by ravi16aug December 24, 2007 10:46 PM PST: why isnt this article visible? please fix the link asap.; Reply to this comment


by kandluis December 25, 2007 12:18 PM PST: the link isn't working!!? where's the story, i've tried with different browsers and i always get a network timeout.; Reply to this comment


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