<div dir="ltr">The best advice I ever received IMO with regards to cleaning Windows machines was this:<div><br></div><div style>Do a clean install, get everything installed and updated, then take an image of the drive. Keep your files (My Documents) backed up. When the machine gets infected, wipe the disk, restore the image, update (and generate new image) as necessary, restore your files and go.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Trying to clean windows is such a terrible experience, it should not be considered an option. Of course, I don't consider Windows an option in the first place, but that's another topic.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Eric</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Stephen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I think it might have been. I know Kaspersky was a Linux based live cd</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 15, 2013 9:26 AM, "<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is that a live-CD Linux distribution?<br>
ET <br>
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Stephen writes: <br>
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Well I have had luck with the malware bytes disk, and avast. <br>
<br>
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, <a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a> <<br>
<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> wrote: <br>
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No, he doesn't want AVG.<br>
He wants a live CD Linux distribution with the necessary tools to clean an<br>
inactive (but accessible) Wincrap filesystem.<br>
I know what he is after...<br>
ET <br>
<br>
John J. Macey writes: <br>
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Wipe Drive, Install Linux. LOL! Give the AVG Trial a try. <br>
On 02/15/2013 08:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote: <br>
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I Love Linux. That being said, what is the best OpenSource program for<br>
cleaning an infected Microsoft computer (spyware/virus)?<br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
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