On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:39:09PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > A friend will bring his PC tonight to my place so I can > cleanup and try to speedup his Windows XP until his new > one arrives. > > I plan to search-n-destroy viruses and spy-ware and try to > make his machine more secure by installing Firefox/Thunderbird > and maybe tweak IE/Outlook. > > His windows is bootable and working but I think it might be > better to do some of the cleanup (virus checks, defrag) from > a Linux environment. (I don't know which FS type he has). > > >From digging the net so far I found a rave-review of System > Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) in NewsForge > (http://tinyurl.com/9dltu) and the Trinity Rescue Kit > (http://trinityhome.org/trk/) is found high in Google search > results, but both seem to be ancient (over a year old). > > Right now I plan to use the System Rescue CD since the NewsForge > review describes the situation I expect to tackle tonight. > > Any pointers/recommendations/warnings are welcome.
For quite many years I did not use any bootable CD except for knoppix. I do not know if it has an antivirus but other than that it usually had whatever I needed at the moment. Recent versions even make it quite easy to install stuff from the net to a ramdisk/unionfs. I should also mention a little known fact, that there is a free (as in beer only) tool to create bootable Windows XP CDs. There is a quite big and fruitful comunity around it - I wouldn't be surprized if they already have packaged one of the freely-downloadable AVs. Google for bartpe or pebuilder. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
