[ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

[H. A. Story]

You are wasting your time.   Get a USB to IDE adapter.  Mount the drive 
onto a LINUX machine and recover data such as 
pictures,docs,music,favorites and etc...   Once that is done erase the 
drive.  Put it back in the laptop and reload the OS. 

Yeah, You don't figure out what was actually wrong and you have to 
reinstall programs. 

But you can spend about 4 hours scanning a drive and never really fix 
the problem.

Keep in mind a lot of AV software doesn't even touch spyware, malware, 
and adware.  Then there are the reinstall on boot programs.

If you want to have fun with the BartPE still.   Look into remotely 
loading the registry.



Sid Lane wrote:
> pls don't flame me for asking this but...
>
> one of my son's teachers asked me to look at her laptop which I would 
> ordinarily NEVER do but she is a teacher & her son is one of mine's 
> friends.
>
> anyhoos, I booted it (off our network naturally) and am running what 
> tools it has on it (M$ & Brave-Sentry?) but the BS thing won't remove 
> anything w/o activating (paying) & apparently M$'s won't work offline.
>
> this thing is owned bigtime to the point I'm afraid to plug it into my 
> network at home (forget about work) for fear it could be a pron zombie 
> (which happened to someone I know in '03 & they're still dealing w/the 
> legal fallout but at least aren't in prison - yet...) - I don't have 
> any specific reason to suspect it is other than Brave-Sentry(?) has 
> found 67 pieces of malware on this thing, several of which are 
> zombie-warz.  I could/would install other/better tools but I'm afraid 
> to connect this thing to the net.
>
> does anyone know of any malware removal tools I could run from a 
> CD/offline (ideally booting from it as well)?
>
> I'll tell her to get legit anti-virus/etc but at this point I don't 
> trust anything that's running from within windoze to fix the problem.
>
> thanks for any advice!
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