I would suggest that people download the free Trinity Rescue Kit and scan your Windows drives from a Linux environment.
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 Burn a CD from the ISO, and boot from the CD. This gets you a Linux Bash prompt. There's a whole load of things this kit can do, but for virus scanning your Windows partitions you just type virusscan This should pick up an IP address, connect to ClamAV's servers, download updates, and do the scan. It can read and write to NTFS partitions so will clean anything including worms that would intercept cleaning attempts if you were running Windows. There's nothing stopping Conficker intercepting any Windows-based removal tool. It also has AVG, BitDefender and F-Prot engines, you can use those by doing, for example: virusscan -a avg -- Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1238406910.31453.1307979...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
