--- On Wed, 11/8/10, Ashish Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have tried overwriting the exe files using the dd command > (find -name *\ > .exe ./ -exec dd -if=/dev/zero or some text file of={} > bs=512 count=some > count enough to override the file size \;) to get rid of > whatever code is in > the virus. > > After running the above command, ls -l does shows the new > attributes of the > file in terms of size and modified date etc, however again > when I delete the > file, the original attributes are restored. > > Then I tried formatting it, however after a certain point > the format fails, > because again the access mode changes to read only mode. > > I then tried overwriting the whole disk with the dd > -if=/dev/zero, but that > fails too after certain point for the same reason. > > Try mounting as superuser. Do not allow normal udev to mount. Just try deleting using find as superuser, I had success in such cases.
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