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From: Ian Bell on 14 Jan 2007 15:00
I am trying to clean my daughter's virus ridden Windows XP laptop. It is
from 2001 and I don't think it even has update 1 applied. I downloaded avg
antivirus which found about 300 infected files and cleaned them up. Howver
there is something more pernicious in there that has corrupted Internet
Explorer (5). In short I cannot upgrade XP without first upgrading IE
because MS won't let any other browser but IE download XP updates. I tried
downloading/installing IE6 but this virus is still there. You cannot edit
favourites and even setting the opening page to balnk does not stop a load
of popups appearing when IE is opened.

I had already downloaded SeaMonkey and this works fine so I thought, right,
just delete the IE folder, download and install IE6. However, as
administrator I cannot delete the IE folder or any file in it. So thought,
run a Linux live distro and do it that way. That does not work either. I
can read/write hda1 the small 50Mbyte partition as VFAT but the main
partition hda2 I can only read. I have tried with Knoppix 5.something and
Puppy Linux with the same result. Can't even change permissions as root let
alone write.

I suspect this is an NTFS partition so what I need is a live distro with
NTFS write - any suggestions?

Cheers

ian
From: Ian Bell on 14 Jan 2007 15:45
Belay that - I just found Trinity Rescue Kit.

Ian

From: Big and Blue on 14 Jan 2007 20:15
Ian Bell wrote:
>
> I suspect this is an NTFS partition so what I need is a live distro with
> NTFS write - any suggestions?

FWIW (given your follow up) Knoppix 5.1

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From: Ian Bell on 15 Jan 2007 02:13
Big and Blue wrote:

> Ian Bell wrote:
>>
>> I suspect this is an NTFS partition so what I need is a live distro with
>> NTFS write - any suggestions?
>
> FWIW (given your follow up) Knoppix 5.1
>

I could only lay my hands on 4.0.2 at the time. I think I have 5.1 on a DVD
somewhere - trouble is this laptop is so old it only has a CD drive.

Thanks for the tip.

Ian
From: Neil Ellwood on 15 Jan 2007 03:35
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:00:36 +0000, Ian Bell wrote:

> I am trying to clean my daughter's virus ridden Windows XP laptop. It is
> from 2001 and I don't think it even has update 1 applied. I downloaded avg
> antivirus which found about 300 infected files and cleaned them up. Howver
> there is something more pernicious in there that has corrupted Internet
> Explorer (5). In short I cannot upgrade XP without first upgrading IE
> because MS won't let any other browser but IE download XP updates. I tried
> downloading/installing IE6 but this virus is still there. You cannot edit
> favourites and even setting the opening page to balnk does not stop a load
> of popups appearing when IE is opened.
>
> I had already downloaded SeaMonkey and this works fine so I thought, right,
> just delete the IE folder, download and install IE6. However, as
> administrator I cannot delete the IE folder or any file in it. So thought,
> run a Linux live distro and do it that way. That does not work either. I
> can read/write hda1 the small 50Mbyte partition as VFAT but the main
> partition hda2 I can only read. I have tried with Knoppix 5.something and
> Puppy Linux with the same result. Can't even change permissions as root let
> alone write.
>
> I suspect this is an NTFS partition so what I need is a live distro with
> NTFS write - any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
> ian

Debian - etch
Mandriva 2007
Fedora C6
(K)ubuntu
etc.

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