Hello, Given the scenario outlined below, have you considered using an external drive enclosure to access the infected system's hard disk drive, copying the data off, checking just it for malware, and then restoring the data to the replacement system? I would think that would take less time than the other method.
Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 5/22/2009, you wrote:
Message: 9 Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:51:32 -0400 From: "Paul A. Pennington" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Antivirus Bootable CD To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <6890f98d63a142809f10f21b753c4...@a31paul> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Sorry, I should have explained why I want to do this. It seems every time a friend asks for help with his computer, it's so choked with viruses that it takes hours to do the simplest task. There's never a backup, so reformatting is not an option. I need a bootable CD to clean up the hard drive enough to make a backup of the data files in a reasonable time. Frequently, the old computer is going to the recycler after the files are retreived, so reloading does not come up at all. Andre', thanks for the tip. I'll take a look at the F-Secure CD. Does anyone else have experience with an Antivirus Rescue CD? Paul Pennington Augusta, Georgia
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