I will second Trinity, I keep a live cd, at work, Used it to clean up several User Errors on our Win systems. it will scan with several different avt now) scanners. Do look through its documentation as there are various scripts already setup to do various things. James C. >Look at Trinity Resource Kit (trinityhome.org)... We used it here at >work during a major virus outbreak. All our heavy lifting back end >Linux, but all our front end web and document processing (parsing >windows documents) are windows. Last May, one of our customers slipped >us a virus, and we didn't catch it before it started spreading thoughout >the Windows server farm. Three data centers in two countries... It was a >"fun" time for all. But we got through it thanks to TRK. It did a >terrific job of cleaning our machines, then we put a new AV on, and away >they went. > >Fortuanately for us, a huge number of our desktops are Linux and Mac, so >we already had *Nix based machines to run TRK from. But, it does run as >a live CD. > >HTH >Kevin On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:59 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
Thanks for letting me know.... I'll look into it!
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Stephen<cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
A Linux install with clamAV can hunt for virii. And you can
probably Chechen some configuration files or replace broken
files with known good ones. But usually I use Linux for data
recovery.
To clean out windows I would suggest malware bytes and avast
AV. But I would also create a new admin user so with the blank
profile you have a easier shot at getting things to run.
I think Avira has a Linux based live scanner CD available.
On Jan 19, 2012 5:10 PM, "Michael Havens"<bmike1@gmail.com>
wrote:
Someone asked me if I could clean their installation
of windows xp and I told them I would look into it. I
was hoping for a live distribution of linux that will
clean a windows system. If there isn't something like
that could you give me a crash course on what I need
to know? I know about msconfig to speed up things but
is there something else I need to know about? If I can
clean their system what virus scanner do you suggest I
install? I'm going to suggest linux to them and give
them backtrack if I spark any interest. They also want
me to build a website for them. So I guess I need a
crash course on that. What do you suggest for a
quick-n-easy way to learn that?
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