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Multiple Viruses
Name: The Colonel Date: November 22, 2006 at 04:56:29 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 260GHz/248MB
Comment:
My friends PC is toast, struck by lightning. I have the HDD and attempting to save his important files and photo's. I installed it into one of my running machines and discovered it is loaded, and I mean loaded, with multiple viruses. I downloaded AVG Anti Virus and attempted to correct the problems. However, It is so infected that it cannot complete the scan, delete or cure process. My question is can I install it into my #1 PC as a Secondary HDD and use my anit virus, spyware and malware utilities without infecting my machine? Thank you.
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 22, 2006 at 05:22:51 Pacific
Reply:
That is the way I do it for friends of mine..
Keep the old stuff running
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Response Number 2
Name: The Colonel Date: November 22, 2006 at 06:09:18 Pacific
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LinuxOS2 I thank you. Can't be to safe these days.
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Response Number 3
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 22, 2006 at 06:34:22 Pacific
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No problem, be sure your AV on your machine is up to date...Good Luck
Keep the old stuff running
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Response Number 4
Name: The Colonel Date: November 23, 2006 at 07:30:12 Pacific
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LinuxOS2, first off "Happy Thanksgiving" to you and all Comp.net people. Did as you suggested, to the "T" and it made a world of difference. However, a couple of scans came up clean while of few others indicated I had two(2) viruses remaining. I could not heal, delete, or quarrantine these files. The error message stated: "the disk is write protected.file cannot be cleaned." Open for suggestions/advice. Thanks
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Response Number 5
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 23, 2006 at 07:47:23 Pacific
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No problem, let me dig around here later today and see what I can find and perhaps help with those last couple of nasties...
Keep the old stuff running
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Response Number 6
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 24, 2006 at 07:31:58 Pacific
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Found these two links that may be of some help, this approach removes windows from the picture and may be a way to tackle what is still lurking, bear in mind that you will be constructing a "BOOT CD"
Name: The Colonel Date: November 25, 2006 at 03:33:15 Pacific
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LinuxOS2, thanks for all you efforts and help. I will file those sites in my favorites. With the remaining problem files I went in and manually removed them. Everything seems to be working just fine now. Again, thanks for your time.
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Response Number 8
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 25, 2006 at 05:34:13 Pacific
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