Wubi installation, Antivirus for Windows in Linux

Renato Patron linux at patrondesigns.com
Sun Apr 26 11:18:40 MST 2009


Jon,

So far I've tried, MalwareBytes, Super Antispyware, DrWeb Live CD, and
nothing...  The computer is still infected. I'm installing Ubuntu right
now using Wubi. I'll keep you posted.

Renato

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:03 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote:
> Run this: http://www.superantispyware.com. Use the free edition and it  
> should be able to clean things up.
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> 
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Renato Patron wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a customer's computer that has been infected with a lot of
> > malware/spyware. I can get into the PC but as soon as I connect to the
> > Internet, the computer freezes.
> > I'd like to install Ubuntu from scratch, but my customer is not
> > completely sure about that. Also she has a lot of
> > music/pictures/documents and some software in Windows that wants to  
> > use,
> > and I think that having a dual-boot will be less complicated.
> >
> > Does anybody have experience using Wubi on an infected Windows
> > partition?
> > Does anybody knows of an Antivirus for Windows that will work in  
> > Ubuntu
> > so maybe I can cleanup the Windows partition?
> >
> > Thanks for your answers,
> >
> > Renato
> >
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