Windows cleaner

[Eric Cope]

The best advice I ever received IMO with regards to cleaning Windows
machines was this:

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.

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.

Eric


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it might have been. I know Kaspersky was a Linux based live cd
> On Feb 15, 2013 9:26 AM, "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> Is that a live-CD Linux distribution?
>> ET
>>
>> Stephen writes:
>>
>>> Well I have had luck with the malware bytes disk, and avast.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
>>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, he doesn't want AVG.
>>>> He wants a live CD Linux distribution with the necessary tools to clean
>>>> an
>>>> inactive (but accessible) Wincrap filesystem.
>>>> I know what he is after...
>>>> ET
>>>>
>>>> John J. Macey writes:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Wipe Drive, Install Linux. LOL! Give the AVG Trial a try.
>>>>> On 02/15/2013 08:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I Love Linux. That being said, what is the best OpenSource program for
>>>>>> cleaning an infected Microsoft computer (spyware/virus)?
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>> Stephen
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