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From: Tommy McClure on 12 Aug 2008 14:55 Russg wrote: > "Tommy McClure" <t> wrote in message news: >> "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message >> news: >> > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to >> > check my PC but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem >> > that some viruses install themselves so as to be invisible to >> > normal scanning. Booting from another OS or boot device stops >> > the virus from hiding itself. Question is whether there is a good >> > virus checker that I can boot from CD to inspect/repair any >> > infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? >> > Richard >> > >> > >> don't know if it is the best, but: >> http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 >> >> linux based, contains 4 AV clients. >> supposedly autoconfigures your hs internet connection and downloads >> updated. I saw it briefly at a meeting. I haven't tried it. >> 129mb iso >> >> >> -- >> tommy >> > I burned a copy and booted it. It is a Linux command line > based and I couldn't figure the commands to make it work, think it > requires some Linux/Unix ability. > I downloaded the documentation, which isn't easy to find, > and still couldn't find the commands and how to use it. I downloaded it last night, haven't burned a copy yet. I have a small amt of linux ability, don't know if it will be enough. -- tommy
From: Dustin Cook on 12 Aug 2008 23:57 "Richard Ferryman" <richardferryman(a)btinternet.com> wrote in news:UJudnUWcYfpp3jzVnZ2dnUVZ8vqdnZ2d(a)bt.com: > Thankss for replies. Last night I resorted to booting linux (I have > dual OS on this machine) and running the linux version of AVG on my > mounted NTFS partitions. It found a trojan downloader in the 'system > file' of my windows drive F: (where I keep audiovisual stuff). I > copied all my data files from that drive to an external drive and > reformatted drive F:. The trojan has gone!. WOW!... All that destruction and work to kill one file? -- Regards, Dustin Cook, Author of BugHunter BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
From: Shane on 13 Aug 2008 03:02 Dustin Cook wrote: > "Richard Ferryman" <richardferryman(a)btinternet.com> wrote in > news:UJudnUWcYfpp3jzVnZ2dnUVZ8vqdnZ2d(a)bt.com: > >> Thankss for replies. Last night I resorted to booting linux (I have >> dual OS on this machine) and running the linux version of AVG on my >> mounted NTFS partitions. It found a trojan downloader in the 'system >> file' of my windows drive F: (where I keep audiovisual stuff). I >> copied all my data files from that drive to an external drive and >> reformatted drive F:. The trojan has gone!. > > WOW!... All that destruction and work to kill one file? Which was probably a false positive anyway. Indeed, I uninstalled AVG for Linux from my openSUSE installation because it FP'd installation files as trojans. Shane
From: Tommy McClure on 13 Aug 2008 11:27 "Russg" <russgilb(a)MUNGEsbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:sVkok.19015$89.2962(a)nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com... > > "Tommy McClure" <t> wrote in message news: > > "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message > > news: > > > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to check my > PC > > > but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem that some viruses > > > install themselves so as to be invisible to normal scanning. Booting > > from > > > another OS or boot device stops the virus from hiding itself. Question > is > > > whether there is a good virus checker that I can boot from CD to > > > inspect/repair any infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? > > > Richard > > > > > > > > don't know if it is the best, but: > > http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 > > > > linux based, contains 4 AV clients. > > supposedly autoconfigures your hs internet connection and downloads > updated. > > I saw it briefly at a meeting. I haven't tried it. > > 129mb iso > > > > > > -- > > tommy > > > I burned a copy and booted it. It is a Linux command line > based and I couldn't figure the commands to make it work, think it requires > some Linux/Unix ability. > I downloaded the documentation, which isn't easy to find, > and still couldn't find the commands and how to use it. > > Here is the link for help [documentation]: http://trinityhome.org/trk/prtdocs/ [ cancel print operation after pages load ] Also, when booted from TRK, type "trkhelp" without the quotes. There's even a linux tutorial included -- tommy
From: Tommy McClure on 13 Aug 2008 11:54
Tommy McClure wrote: > "Russg" <russgilb(a)MUNGEsbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:sVkok.19015$89.2962(a)nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com... >> >> "Tommy McClure" <t> wrote in message news: >> > "Richard Ferryman" <> wrote in message >> > news: >> > > In days gone by I always used a bootable floppy with McAfee to >> > > check my PC but these days useAVG free. This raises a problem >> > > that some viruses install themselves so as to be invisible to >> > > normal scanning. Booting from another OS or boot device stops >> > > the virus from hiding itself. Question is whether there is a >> > > good virus checker that I can boot from CD to inspect/repair any >> > > infection on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system? >> > > Richard >> > > >> > > >> > don't know if it is the best, but: >> > http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 >> > >> > linux based, contains 4 AV clients. >> > supposedly autoconfigures your hs internet connection and >> > downloads updated. I saw it briefly at a meeting. I haven't tried >> > it. 129mb iso >> > >> > >> > -- >> > tommy >> > >> I burned a copy and booted it. It is a Linux command line >> based and I couldn't figure the commands to make it work, think it >> requires some Linux/Unix ability. >> I downloaded the documentation, which isn't easy to find, >> and still couldn't find the commands and how to use it. >> >> > Here is the link for help [documentation]: > http://trinityhome.org/trk/prtdocs/ [ cancel print operation after > pages load ] > Also, when booted from TRK, type "trkhelp" without the quotes. > There's even a linux tutorial included I just tried it, I typed trkhelp and received a message for "host not found" error. [ host searched for: http://trinityhome.org/trk/prtdocs ]. They didn't even put a copy of the docs on the cd! Print the docs first! Apparently, they expect you to be hooked up to a high speed modem connection when you boot. [ I only have dialup ] |