A new MBR and volume boot record is written when a disk is partitioned, no need for dban at all.
Can they ? How pray tell ? I didn't say "simple formatting", i said "delete and recreate all partitions, then format them"
>and the HIPS raises dozens of alerts about the myriad small >executable files that make up MSys. Any decent HIPS (ie Malware Defender) should...
Deleting and recreating any partitions on a disk, then formatting them will kill off any malware, rootkit, whatever. Dbanning and all that...
Any decent firewall (or NAT if you have a DSL router) will drop unsolicited incoming connection attempts (which is what port scanning is) by...
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