I have already used this approach once when someone got infected
with this XP antivirus scam.
They are getting worse and will literally paralyze the system from
doing anything, even in safe mode, so the only option is to run the boot disk.
These have all been windows XP systems. Have not run into it yet with 7.
Stewart
At 11:18 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
On May 5, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Brian Jones wrote:
I was recently installing Trend Micro's AV for a customer when an
error occurred. When tried to uninstall to start over, there was no
uninstall routine available. So I re-ran the install and got more
errors (different from the prior time). I repeated the cycle and it
continued to get worse.
I have had similar problems with Notron and BitDefender. I suspect
that all antiviral software has to make itself hard to remove. If they
didn't the next virus that came along could easily uninstall it. The
best defense is to not run defective OSs.
More and more I like the idea of periodically booting into Linux from
a CD and then running a virus scanner from there. BitDefender has such
a disk and it is free. It creates a RAM disk and downloads the latest
definitions. Then it runs against the inactive Windows drive. That
means it can bypass rootkits and other defenses that a virus could
have inserted into Windows.
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