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From: Richard Ferryman on 11 Aug 2008 15:17 In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my PC but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting from another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question is whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? Richard
From: Russg on 11 Aug 2008 18:10 "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message news: > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my PC > but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses > install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting from > another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question is > whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to > inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? > Richard > http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/F-Secure-Rescue-CD-Download-39153.ht ml Above is f-secure rescue CD iso and pdf instructions download of zip. It is Linux based and really should come from F-secure but I couldn't get that at f-secure. I don't know if f-secure still has updated sig file. It is beta, supposed to download sig file if internet is connected, or you can put the sig file on a USB drive, if you can find the file at f-secure. It doesn't write to MBR, like Bart PE, and it doesn't require adding software to a universal boot CD. It may be that f-secure isn't supporting it any more.
From: Tommy McClure on 11 Aug 2008 22:32 "Richard Ferryman" <richardferryman(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:k9mdnVS-s6mbAT3VnZ2dnUVZ8qrinZ2d(a)bt.com... > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my PC > but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses > install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting from > another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question is > whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to > inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? > Richard > > don't know if it is the best, but: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 linux based, contains 4 AV clients. supposedly autoconfigures your hs internet connection and downloads updated. I saw it briefly at a meeting. I haven't tried it. 129mb iso -- tommy
From: Richard Ferryman on 12 Aug 2008 04:04 Thankss for replies. Last night I resorted to booting linux (I have dual OS on this machine) and running the linux version of AVG on my mounted NTFS partitions. It found a trojan downloader in the 'system file' of my windows drive F: (where I keep audiovisual stuff). I copied all my data files from that drive to an external drive and reformatted drive F:. The trojan has gone!. Seems that running another OS to check the windows drives is the best wauy to go. Think I will create a linux bootable CD similar to those mentioned. Richard "Russg" <russgilb(a)MUNGEsbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:jL2ok.17443$uE5.10790(a)flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com... > > "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message news: > >> In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my >> PC >> but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses >> install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting > from >> another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question >> is >> whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to >> inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? >> Richard >> > > > http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/F-Secure-Rescue-CD-Download-39153.ht > ml > > Above is f-secure rescue CD iso and pdf instructions > download of zip. > It is Linux based and really should come from F-secure > but I couldn't get that at f-secure. > I don't know if f-secure still has updated sig file. > It is beta, supposed to download sig file if internet > is connected, or you can put the sig file on a USB > drive, if you can find the file at f-secure. > It doesn't write to MBR, like Bart PE, and it doesn't > require adding software to a universal boot CD. > It may be that f-secure isn't supporting it any more. > >
From: Russg on 12 Aug 2008 14:50
"Tommy McClure" <t> wrote in message news: > "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message > news: > > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my PC > > but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses > > install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting > from > > another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question is > > whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to > > inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? > > Richard > > > > > don't know if it is the best, but: > http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 > > linux based, contains 4 AV clients. > supposedly autoconfigures your hs internet connection and downloads updated. > I saw it briefly at a meeting. I haven't tried it. > 129mb iso > > > -- > tommy > I burned a copy and booted it. It is a Linux command line based and I couldn't figure the commands to make it work, think it requires some Linux/Unix ability. I downloaded the documentation, which isn't easy to find, and still couldn't find the commands and how to use it. |