On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I know this is slightly OT, but I have a friend with a Windows
drive that is so infected with trojans and malware that the best
option is to pull the drive, hook it to a clean machine and sort it
out from there.
I wondered if I can do this from a Mac or do I need to hook it up
to another Windows machine.
Should be no problem. If you aren't using an antivirus program right
now, and only want to use one for this specific task, I would
recommend ClamXav (free). You can define a quarantine folder, and
have infected files automatically moved into that folder for later
disposition. You need to install the clamav engine, but there are
supported ways to uninstall it if you decide it is not for you.
Possible downside: ClamXav does not 'remove' or 'clean' viruses from
files. It 'only' identifies infected files and gives you the option
of moving them to a defined folder for your manual disposition.
http://www.clamxav.com/ - make sure you download the version 2.0 beta
(currently v2.0.8).
There's also a free Mac home version from Sophos, but I think it is
more suited to on-the-fly checking. It has a disk/directory scanning
feature, but I prefer how ClamXav works for this purpose.
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Don Zahniser
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