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Registry access
Name: xendistar Date: December 10, 2008 at 14:02:37 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1gb Product: Dell DIMENSION
Comment:
A friend of mine has a virus\trojan problem with his PC, can I boot the PC up from a bootable Linux CD and edit the registry using linux?? How do I find the registry??
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: December 10, 2008 at 14:12:48 Pacific
Reply:
No, you can't. Does the machine boot to Windows? How about a little more detail?
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Response Number 4
Name: xendistar Date: December 10, 2008 at 15:02:05 Pacific
Reply:
It is the AntiVirus 2009 Trojan\spamware\virus
I have a crib sheet that tell me what I need to do from within windows which includes deleting 4 registry keys. As I am not aware of how much access I will have to the PC (either this spam\trojan\virus or other problems blocking me) from installing or accessing other files\internet access I wondered if I could of accessed the registry from linux and deleted the entry I needed from there.
I know all about regedit and the use of programs like malwarebytes, a2squared to eradicate and check the system over.
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