On 05/22/2011 01:36 PM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2011 23:17:30 walt wrote: >> On 05/20/2011 04:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: >>> On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>>> Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not >>>> been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. >>> >>> I use it for all my gentoo installations as well. >>> Have even removed windows viruses from windows boxen with it. >> >> How did you repair a windows box with it? I can't even begin to guess! > > Mount it with ntfs-3g, scan it with clam after updating the virus signatures > (freshclam) and then remove or copy away infected files.
This is exactly what I did. I cant live without systemrescueCD The USB installer is also awesome. > > Alternatively, it may be possible to dd the partition and pipe it to clam > (not > sure if this will work with a whole partition instead of a file) using > something like: > > dd if=/dev/sda1 | clamscan - > > > Alternatively, you can use Knoppix and Fprot, bitdefender and clam. > > Or, you can use the many LiveCDs and Live-USBs that Kaspersky, BitDefender, > et > al are producing these days.