[ale] okay, totally OT - free win 10 virus scan?

[Jim Kinney]

Boot from live linux cd, copy mandatory files to new thumb drive, fdisk that hard drive and start over. 

On November 5, 2021 1:33:39 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Helping out a friend.
>
>Win 10 computer shows signs of virus.  100% disk usage, but Task
>Manager 
>shows nothing eating up that much.
>
>Resource Monitor shows many copies of OfficeClickToRun.exe. 
>googleation 
>suggest this be virus.  Which appears to make many copies of itself.
>
>Thus it would appear that I should find a bootable anti-virus to scan 
>this computer.
>
>Given I don't want to spend a major portion of my remaining life, 
>suggestions?   I've used ClamAV in the past.   I don't want to make 
>things worse by running a virus-scan which is itself a virus.
>
>regards,
>
>Neal
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