Using Linux to Disinfect Windows
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From: Gordon Darling on 19 May 2010 19:33 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows Bear bottoms solution is "Just reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Simple. I do it all the time." This is an easier way. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Mark Warner on 19 May 2010 19:47 Gordon Darling wrote: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows While it's been a while since I've tried it, I found the F-Secure scanner to be much, much slower than the Avira offering. JME. YMMV. Regardless, the point remains: a Linux Live CD running from "outside" the Windows OS should be a part of any malware cleaning toolset. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Gordon Darling on 19 May 2010 20:14 On Wed, 19 May 2010 19:47:59 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Gordon Darling wrote: >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows > > While it's been a while since I've tried it, I found the F-Secure > scanner to be much, much slower than the Avira offering. JME. YMMV. > > Regardless, the point remains: a Linux Live CD running from "outside" > the Windows OS should be a part of any malware cleaning toolset. The BitDefender rescue CD is also a goodie. http://www.bitdefender.com/KB417-en--Using-the-BitDefender-Rescue-CD.html Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 20 May 2010 03:34 > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows > Bear bottoms solution is "Just reformat the hard drive and reinstall > Windows. Simple. I do it all the time." You can't repair damages made to system files.... -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 15:34:02 up 1 day 18:45 2 users load average: 1.04 1.08 1.02 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Blitz The Dog on 21 May 2010 03:22
Gordon Darling wrote: >http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows > >Bear bottoms solution is "Just reformat the hard drive and reinstall >Windows. Simple. I do it all the time." > >This is an easier way. Bullshit. Did you bother to read that article? It says "if a Windows system file is infected the computer may not restart anymore". Oh dear!................What next? Why yes of course ... ... restore the most recent image of your Windows partition. Job done. Takes about 5 minutes. You do take backup images regularly. Right? NB: Trying to disinfect an operating system like Windows is often a fools game, but there are plenty of fools about. It's much better to run a b/u image regime and restore when you become suspicious of malware...no disinfection necessary. regards -Blitz The Dog- |