OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-12 Thread keith smith
Hi, Life is interesting.  My XP box has been infected twice in less than a year. Today I got a malware infection. I found what seems to be a solution to fixing my system - Avira Rescue CD. Anyone have any experience with Avira Rescue CD?  It supposedly is Linux based.  Thanks in advance! --

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-12 Thread Bryan O'Neal
You know my windows systems very rearly get infected. But I run free AV/AM software and use noscript and don't use adobe product save when absolutly required. That said the Avira Rescue CD sounds quite interesting - thanks for the heads up. Up till now I have been using UBCD4Win on friends / family

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-12 Thread Dazed_75
That Avira rescue disk may help if you have a virus infection in the windows system, but I do not believe it will do anything about a malware or rootkit infection. I have fixed a number of peop;es windows systwms using the free software from http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php On Sun, Sep 12, 2

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-12 Thread Stephen
I have used avira, was only way to remove particularly bad virus form a machine. i just need install media so i cna repair the corrupted files in windows. but the avira part worked well. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoeni

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-12 Thread keith smith
eith Smith --- On Sun, 9/12/10, Stephen wrote: From: Stephen Subject: Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 8:41 PM I have used avira, was only way to remove  particularly bad virus form a machine. i just need install m

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread Roderick Ford
Best option would be to keep Windows relegated to a VM ... virtualbox/qemu/vmware ... so when these problems occur, you can just "rollback" to the snapshot and keep on working, within a minute! There is no use wasting good hardware. Roderick Ford keith smith wrote: = Hi

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread keith smith
Very interesting idea.  Does virtualbox requires a 64bit CPU? Keith Smith --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Roderick Ford wrote: From: Roderick Ford Subject: Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Cc: "keith smith" Date: Monday

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread JD Austin
Ford > > Subject: Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Cc: "keith smith" > Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:29 AM > > > Best option would be to keep Windows relegated to a VM ... > virtualbox/qemu/vmware ... so whe