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Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots

Mystic Megabyte
Linux

Treacle OS

I never did understand why any Windows program could write a whole load of crap into the registry.

Remember those AOL CDs that came in the post every week? If you were daft enough to install one a search of the registry revealed AOL in a zillion places, even after uninstalling it!

I got annoyed with the inevitable slow-down of my PC and moved to Linux after XP.

As mentioned above, MS's collusion with Hollywood and DRM was their downfall. I want to be the admin of my own machine.

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