I belive in: use the best tool for your job. What I would recommend is not a Linux solution, but sort of "mini windows" solution.
It's called: bartPE, it's GPL'd, and it creates an ISO image from your current Windows XP installation. Prior to making the ISO, you can add few programs (antivirus, ghost, partition magic, firefox, etc) and make the ISO. Then you burn it to a CD-R and boot from it. With this bootable CD, you're getting a mini version of XP and you can access the hard drive and scan for viruses, worms, spyware, adware etc and clean them. URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Thanks, Hetz On 9/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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. > > Thanks, > > --Amos > > > > ================================================================= > 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] > > ================================================================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]
