I’ve just found another step in the evolution of spyware.

This time, I try to do a spyware scan using ewido, whilst in safe mode, but I find that F8 will not work while the PC is starting… it meant I could only run ewido in normal windows mode… not quite as effective as in safe mode.

A few days later, I found that I could have tried msconfig… the boot.ini tab has a checkbox in it, which will enable safemode (/safeboot).

Something to remember for next time this happens.