Mike,<br>o n your linux box, do a google search for "rescue disk". The top returns will likely inclide rescue disks from the various AV vendors like Kaspersky, AVG, Avira, Trend Micro and so on. It may even show some Microsoft things like System Sweeper. All of those will be bootable Live CDs with which to clean your Windows box. Its even worth using a couple of them as sometime one will be able to find/fix something the first one did not.<br>
<br>Do be sure to update definitions when you boot the live CD.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Lee Reynolds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lee.Reynolds@asu.edu" target="_blank">Lee.Reynolds@asu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The problem with Windows isn't Windows itself, but the calibre of people who tend to use it.<br>
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I'm not talking about IT folks who do Windows, I'm talking about the people who are only barely competent enough to do ANYTHING on a computer at all. They use Windows because that's what was installed on their $299 e-machines system. When it gets infested to the point that it is non-functional, they'll toss it and go buy another one, never understanding that this is not how things are supposed to be.<br>
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The computers they own get hacked not only because they don't update and secure them, but because they fall for every scam pop-up and email in the book.<br>
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The best advice I ever received IMO with regards to cleaning Windows machines was this:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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</div><div class="im">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Stephen <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com">cryptworks@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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I think it might have been. I know Kaspersky was a Linux based live cd<br>
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</div><div class="im">On Feb 15, 2013 9:26 AM, "<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>>" <<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
Is that a live-CD Linux distribution?<br>
ET<br>
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Stephen writes:<br>
Well I have had luck with the malware bytes disk, and avast.<br>
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</div><div class="im">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, <a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> <<br>
<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>
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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>
I Love Linux. That being said, what is the best OpenSource program for<br>
cleaning an infected Microsoft computer (spyware/virus)?<br>
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