Hi, I use AVAST BART cd for my recovery. It's not a full XP live cd, only boots to a minimal 98 or so install, no start menu or anything; it provides a cmd prompt with check disk and such, and AVAST AV, and some other disk utils, including a registry editor. Of course it's neither free nor Free... :( ~Ryan On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Charles Jones < charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote: > I gave him a copy of a bootcd that I found somewhere some time ago, > "UBCD4WIN". It boots a live-cd of WindowsXP from a CD, and also contains > various anti-virus and anti-spyware tools and utilities. So you boot > from the CD and since its a liveCD you can safely connect to the network > and update the AV signatures before doing a scan and clean. Pretty handy > for fixing winblows issues. > > -Charles > > Stephen wrote: > > a bootable AV screen is probably going to be needed, you may find some > > specific tools on mcaffe and symantec sites. > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Charles Jones > > wrote: > > > >> What all is involved in the fix? One of my co-workers apparently got his > >> laptop zapped by it. From what he said it infects the winlogon.exe, so > not > >> only do you have to clean the virus from loading, but you have to > replace > >> the winlogin.exe with a known good copy. What a pain. Personally I > cannot > >> believe that any mail filters still allow .exe file attachments, or that > >> people would actually run a .exe file they received in email! > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Jamie Shackles > >> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ; arnoldwilliams@cox.net ; > ricky b > >> ; Jill Bain ; Ricky Bezanson ; fernalena golding ; RUDY H ; Vince None ; > >> Joey Prestia > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:21 PM > >> Subject: Hallmark E cards attack > >> I don't know if anyone else has been receiving these ehallmark > postcards, > >> but *don't open it* I have been getting about 3 a day, but I saw them > for > >> what they were worth, and have not opened them. My parents, on the > other > >> hand, did open it and it took a good 3 hours to fix the computer. Nasty > >> nasty virus! > >> > >> ~ Jamie > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog (623)-239-1103 <-- Grand Central, baby! Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.