[ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

[Sid Lane]

well,

my paranoia may have been well founded - I ran spybot & avg on it which
claimed to identify & remove ~80-90 threats EACH, gave it back to her
yesterday and this morning she's telling me it popping up pron.  I told her
she needed to cut her losses & reinstall windoze but she said she wasn't
sure if she had the disk(s).  I kind of wonder if it's a legit copy anyway
as it was still SP1 and I wasn't about to be responsible for SP2 killing it
or WGA making it commit suicide (besides, that would have required
connecting to a network & I wasn't about to put it on an address I was
responsible for).  she says "I'm not saying you did it" - um, yea,
considering I never connected the stupid thing to the internet I'd say it's
possible it was there before...

folks, I have officially done my LAST hands-on attempt to help somebody -
verbal advice, fine, but given what's happened(/ing) to this other person I
know it's just not worth the risk...

it's a rough net out there - I think I'll stick to databases, preferrably
ones that don't launch dos attacks on the entire internet & run on an os
quite so prone to hostile takeovers...

if you EVER see me post another ? related to helping someone outside of work
PLEASE send someone over to smack me in the face w/a pie (some of you know
where I am).

On 8/13/07, Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com> 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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